Moritz Muehlenhoff: > On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 10:03:51PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 01, 2016 at 05:17:06PM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: >>> I think we should remove hardening-wrapper for the stretch release? >>> dpkg-buildflags/dh >>> are around for a long time now and we're down to about 50 reverse >>> dependencies at >>> this point. Plus, lintian marks it as deprecated for quite a while now. >>> >>> Kees, what do you think? >> >> Yeah, it (and hardening-includes) should get removed in favor of >> the dpkg-buildflags method. However, this means we need to move the >> "hardening-check" script from hardening-includes to lintian, probably. > > hardening-wrapper has now been removed, so hardening-check needs a new > home. > > Adding the Lintian maintainers to CC, what's your opinion on merging it into > lintian? > > Cheers, > Moritz >
Lintian has embedded the checks, but has not taken over the tool. There were talk about putting the actual tool in devscritps, but I don't know what happened with that. That said, I do not feel the tool fits into lintian - at least not with lintian current design. Thanks, ~Niels
