On Thu, 2020-07-30 at 10:09 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Jeff Law wrote: > > :( I'll raise it again with Nick and Jakub, it's a sore point for > > everyone I think and it causes far more friction than just what we see > > here in Fedora. > > IMHO, we should just drop annobin from Fedora (or at least disable it). It > provides no tangible benefit to end users and the regular sync issues with > the toolchain are a constant source of pain for packagers. Would it not be > enough to do periodic rebuilds with annobin in a side tag to catch packages > that are built with insecure or otherwise suboptimal flags, instead of > burdening the production repository with this debugging tool?
Although the sync issues are annoying I do think we, as developers of and developers on the Fedora platform benefit from having the annobin notes in the binaries. It is like making sure there is unwind information or debug packages for each binary. If things are perfect, they are just there for assurance. But if there is an issue you want to look into, or you get a crash, want to do some profiling to see what your machine is doing, writing a new program, combine two libraries, etc. you are glad the information is there. Cheers, Mark _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
