CCing Kees Cook, he has been the one leading the efforts up to now. I hope he can answer your queries.
Hi, On Sat, 20 Nov 2010, Don Armstrong wrote: > There are a couple of things here that should be worked out first > before the CTTE can make a decision: > > 1) Has gcc's upstream been approached about including this patch? What > was their response? No idea. > 2) Has the archive been successfully rebuilt with the proposed patch? I think this patch is used in Ubuntu, so mostly yes. I guess Kees Cook or Steve Langasek should be able to tell us a bit more. > 3) Since Matthias has indicated that he doesn't have the resources to > steward this patch in Debian, who is going to work on maintaining it > if upstream isn't interested in the patch and the CTTE decides to > override Matthias? Kees, would you be willing to take this responsibility in that case? > Alternatives to patching gcc include making dpkg-buildflags more > prevalent, a wrapper that we require to install on buildds (coupled > with throwing away binary builds), or some combination of the above. Indeed. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Follow my Debian News ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.com (English) ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.fr (Français) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-gcc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101121073921.gb11...@rivendell.home.ouaza.com
