On 6 February 2016 at 23:52, Philipp Kern <pk...@debian.org> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 02, 2016 at 01:57:56PM +0000, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: >> I've modernised packaging a bit, and fix a bunch of lintian tags. >> >> I also made a patch to prevent FTBFS, when toolchain has PIE enabled by >> default. >> >> Please consider applying the below patch. > > Please use your connections with IBM to apply the spelling fixes > upstream. Every divergence we keep on the Debian side needs to be > justified as they are a pain to rebase on a new release. >
OK. > The same is obviously true of the error-manpages diff as well, but that > was already there. I'd appreciate if IBM could look through the patches > if anything could be done to get them upstream so that we can carry > less of a delta. > OK. > The other changes are fine to me if there's no change to the actual > package output except descriptions and build output. Did you test the > resulting package on an actual s390 machine on *Debian*? > I have not, I shall dedicate one of my z/VMs for Debian testing actually. > I'm a bit surprised about the explicit addition of the hardening flags, > given that none of the binaries is suid nor a network daemon. So we > could just follow the distro-default here. But I'm not too bothered by > it. True. Well, PIE is enabled in the tool-chain by default on Ubuntu, and that does break zipl (ie. it needs it disabled). Thus actually apart from "because I can", I'm not sure all hardening flags are actually justified here. -- Regards, Dimitri.
