Bug#711193: Mark hardening-wrapper/includes as deprecated build-depends
"Thijs Kinkhorst" <thijs@debian.org> writes:
> Hardening-wrapper/includes have existed as the solution for build
> hardening before dpkg buildflags was introduced. Therefore, quite a lot
> of packages adopted hardening-wrapper/includes and put them into their
> Build-Depends. Now that dpkg buildflags is the agreed-upon superior
> solution, it is better if they move to this solution if possible. The
> tag would alert them of this fact, as would it signal new packages
> adding this method (e.g. by copying it from another package).
> There are still valid use cases, but as you say even there it's probably
> a (known) bug in the build system that precludes the use of dpkg
> buildflags. The packages themselves aren't going anywhere, it's just
> that there's a large quantity of use that's most likely inertia. The
> valid use cases could perhaps add an override?
Hm, okay, yeah, that's a good point.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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