Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal Hi ftp-master,
Please remove src:prelink - the package is unmaintained upstream (no releases or SVN commits since 2013) and was removed from Fedora (where the upstream maintainer was packaging it) several releases ago. It has a bad habit of breaking binaries (see open bugs) and I don't think there's enough of a development community to really fix it; the remaining bugs likely require very arcane ELF magic to resolve properly.
There are two binary packages, prelink and execstack. I don't think execstack is of much use by itself, espcially because any build scripts etc. using execstack can generally be replaced with the linkerflag -Wl,-z,noexecstack (or execstack, whichever you need). But if someone's interested I can try to split it out of the prelink source package. (Fedora currently has an "execstack" source package from the prelink tarball, but I think they care more than we do because SELinux blocks programs with executable stacks by default.)
-- Geoffrey Thomas https://ldpreload.com [email protected]
