On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 11:50:43AM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 10:27:15AM -0800, Kees Cook wrote: > > It's been another year; would you reconsider carrying the PIE patches in > > Debian gdb again? AFAICT, RedHat, SUSE, and Ubuntu all use the patches. > > I've ported what I could from the RedHat patches[1] into Ubuntu[2] > > and it's mostly working (it's not perfect, of course). > > Jan is currently merging PIE support upstream, as in, he reposted some > of the patches this morning. I have my fingers crossed for GDB 7.1, > which I will package for Debian when it is released around mid-February.
This is great news! I'll be on the watch for early versions of this -- I'd like to help get it tested. -- Kees Cook @debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
