Kees Cook <k...@debian.org> writes: > I would like to propose enabling[1] the GCC hardening patches that Ubuntu > uses[2]. Ubuntu has used it successfully for 1.5 years now (3 releases), > and many of the issues have already been fixed in packages that needed > adjustment[3]. After all this time, use of the hardening-wrapper[4] > package is still very low, so I think the right thing to do is to just fix > this in the compiler and everyone wins. I'm not suggesting that there > won't be added work to fix problems, but I believe that for Debian the > benefits now out-weigh the risks.
Agreed. The freeze is months away, there's plenty of time to deal with the potential fallout of enabling this, so let's just do it. -- Romain Francoise <rfranco...@debian.org> http://people.debian.org/~rfrancoise/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
