On 2016-10-03 23:10, Steve Langasek wrote: > The new libpfm4 version seems to include changes besides just adding new > code for enabling the new CPUs, and it's non-trivial to see from source > review what impact this may have on existing uses. Could we have some > analysis of these changes, and their potential risk to the release? > > There's also this packaging change: > > +# see FEATURE AREAS in dpkg-buildflags(1) > +export DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS = hardening=+all,-pie > > This explicitly disables PIE, which is enabled by default on amd64 and > s390x in yakkety. Why should we want to disable PIE? There's no > explanation in the debian changelog.
PIE wasn't enabled in Debian before that change and IIRC I had some build problems on i386 or amd64 or ??? and therefore explicitly didn't turn on PIE. I'll have a look at this again within the next weeks. Andreas -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1629989 Title: FFe: Sync libpfm4 4.7.0+git30-gd422ba2-1 (main) from Debian unstable (main) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libpfm4/+bug/1629989/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
