On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 10:20:14AM +0100, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote:
> To enable control flow protection (Intel CET) we need to kick of ABI
> transition for libffi and libnettle, because trampolines / shadow
> stack changes there change abi along with other changes that happened.

> libffi transition means rebuild of ruby python php haskell
> llvm-toolchains guile....

> I guess we should have opened with libffi transition, but oh well.

> Is it ok to proceed with libffi transition? It will be disruptive, due
> to rebuilds triggering autopkgtests of all languages with bindings
> effectively.

And there's already a libnettle transition ongoing in -proposed.  Is that
this one, or is it an unrelated one we should dump?

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