Control: tags -1 - moreinfo On 2015-04-24 18:02, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > [...] > > These were in fact carried over from wheezy and Romain's comments > are confirmed to be correct. > > Cheers, > Moritz >
Thanks for confirming, I have devised the following patch (already committed) for dealing with the hardening-wrapper part. The kernel / symlink protection remains, which is why I have not tagged this pending yet. ~Niels
>From 37641cf4a59da3f045de030477e9e9cab103a896 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: nthykier <nthykier@313b444b-1b9f-4f58-a734-7bb04f332e8d> Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 20:09:35 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Mark hardening-wrapper as deprected (see #783232) Signed-off-by: Niels Thykier <[email protected]> git-svn-id: svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/svn/ddp/manuals/trunk/release-notes@10845 313b444b-1b9f-4f58-a734-7bb04f332e8d --- en/upgrading.dbk | 4 +++- en/whats-new.dbk | 4 +--- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/en/upgrading.dbk b/en/upgrading.dbk index e58aebf..8bf80a2 100644 --- a/en/upgrading.dbk +++ b/en/upgrading.dbk @@ -1374,7 +1374,9 @@ This includes the following features: <itemizedlist> <listitem> - <para> + <para>The <systemitem + role="package">hardening-wrapper</systemitem> package + is deprecated and is expected to be removed in Stretch. </para> </listitem> </itemizedlist> diff --git a/en/whats-new.dbk b/en/whats-new.dbk index 36829ef..e0228d2 100644 --- a/en/whats-new.dbk +++ b/en/whats-new.dbk @@ -476,9 +476,7 @@ TODO: Need to include stuff from <[email protected]> protector flag has been switched to stack-protector-strong for extra hardening. Note that the hardened build flags are not enabled by default in <systemitem role="package">gcc</systemitem>, so they are - not used automatically when locally building software. The package - <systemitem role="package">hardening-wrapper</systemitem> can - provide a <systemitem>gcc</systemitem> with these flags enabled. + not used automatically when locally building software. </para> <para>New in this release is the <systemitem -- 2.1.4
