On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 11:32:34AM +1100, Karl Goetz wrote: > Package: freeciv > Severity: normal > > Hi both, > If we are willing to drop trivial backporting to oldstable, could we use > `dpkg-buildflags --export=configure` to cut out all the manual setting > and exporting of the hardening variables? > Problem with that method would be on the Ubuntu side - they don't appear > to have dpkg-dev 1.16.1 in anything released , or in their backports.
Oldstable has been end-of-lifed, so it can be left aside. > Failing that, should I just use the submitted patch to cure this issue? > thanks, > kk I've described the backport-friendly hardening way in http://wiki.debian.org/HardeningWalkthrough Cheers, Moritz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org