James Clarke dixit: >As far as I can tell, no progress has been made on this issue since the >few discussions on debian-devel[0]. The current state is not desirable,
I agree. I think everyone agreed that GCC should handle hardening and dpkg should not pass the -specs= stuff any longer. >and in fact is causing at least one crucial package, cmake, to FTBFS Indeed. I porter-uploaded it for x32 by downgrading dpkg first which made the build succeed. bye, //mirabilos -- “ah that reminds me, thanks for the stellar entertainment that you and certain other people provide on the Debian mailing lists │ sole reason I subscribed to them (I'm not using Debian anywhere) is the entertainment factor │ Debian does not strike me as a place for good humour, much less German admin-style humour”