On 7 April 2017 at 19:06, G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > All of this hardening stuff, as I understand it, involves mitigation > strategies for unsafe memory usage in the C language family in the ELF > object file format.
It's not only hardening stuff, it's whatever flags someone building the package locally would like, e.g. one could 'export DEB_LDFLAGS_MAINT_APPEND = -Wl,--as-needed' from debian/rules and expect everything to be linked with that option.
