Bug#528080: ffmpeg-debian: ffmpeg still has shlib-with-non-pic-code lintian errors

2016-10-16 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
On 16.10.2016 13:31, Niels Thykier wrote: > Andreas Cadhalpun: >> By the way, do you happen to know what problems these text relocations >> cause from a security point of view? >> (I thought they were incompatible with NX, but that seems not to be >> the case [1].) > > I wish I did. For an

Bug#528080: ffmpeg-debian: ffmpeg still has shlib-with-non-pic-code lintian errors

2016-10-16 Thread Niels Thykier
Andreas Cadhalpun: > Hi Niels, > > On 16.10.2016 08:45, Niels Thykier wrote: >> Do you know if upstream has re-evaluated this choice after gcc-5 fixed >> one of the major performance issues with PIC on i386? >> >> Source: >>

Bug#528080: ffmpeg-debian: ffmpeg still has shlib-with-non-pic-code lintian errors

2016-10-16 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Hi Niels, On 16.10.2016 08:45, Niels Thykier wrote: > Do you know if upstream has re-evaluated this choice after gcc-5 fixed > one of the major performance issues with PIC on i386? > > Source: >

Bug#528080: ffmpeg-debian: ffmpeg still has shlib-with-non-pic-code lintian errors

2016-10-16 Thread Niels Thykier
On Thu, 13 Oct 2016 23:58:45 +0200 Andreas Cadhalpun wrote: > Hi, > > This only affects i386, where non-pic code is used for performance reasons. > > I'm closing this wontfix bug now, because I think the topic is sufficiently > documented in the lintian

Bug#528080: ffmpeg-debian: ffmpeg still has shlib-with-non-pic-code lintian errors

2016-07-04 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Control: tags -1 wontfix Am Sonntag, den 03.07.2016, 18:45 +0200 schrieb Carl Eugen Hoyos: > Different FFmpeg developers have explained repeatedly (including > recently)  > that this will not be fixed within FFmpeg, so I suggest to close this > bug  > report as wont-fix. Tagging wontfix, though

Bug#528080: ffmpeg-debian: ffmpeg still has shlib-with-non-pic-code lintian errors

2016-07-03 Thread Carl Eugen Hoyos
Different FFmpeg developers have explained repeatedly (including recently) that this will not be fixed within FFmpeg, so I suggest to close this bug report as wont-fix. Carl Eugen

Bug#528080: ffmpeg-debian: ffmpeg still has shlib-with-non-pic-code lintian errors

2009-05-10 Thread Andres Mejia
Package: ffmpeg-debian Severity: important Tags: help ffmpeg still gets these 'shlib-with-non-pic-code' lintian errors, although the package is build with '-fPIC -DPIC' as required by policy. The patch I've committed to git reduced the amount of these errors from 14 to 6. More work needs to be

Bug#528080: ffmpeg-debian: ffmpeg still has shlib-with-non-pic-code lintian errors

2009-05-10 Thread Reinhard Tartler
Andres Mejia mcita...@gmail.com writes: ffmpeg still gets these 'shlib-with-non-pic-code' lintian errors, although the package is build with '-fPIC -DPIC' as required by policy. policy does not require it, but rather strongly recommends it. In ffmpeg there is a good argument for *not*

Bug#528080: ffmpeg-debian: ffmpeg still has shlib-with-non-pic-code lintian errors

2009-05-10 Thread Andres Mejia
On Sunday 10 May 2009 16:15:48 Reinhard Tartler wrote: Andres Mejia mcita...@gmail.com writes: ffmpeg still gets these 'shlib-with-non-pic-code' lintian errors, although the package is build with '-fPIC -DPIC' as required by policy. policy does not require it, but rather strongly recommends