Bug#796642: debian-policy: hardening is an afterthought and should never be

2015-08-23 Thread Florian Weimer
* Steve Langasek: >> Harden flags set AND ENFORCED on build environment(harden package) > > There is no way to "enforce" the use of hardening flags. There is a way, involving multiple steps: 1. Put -grecord-gcc-switches into the hardening flags. 2. Make debuginfo packages mandatory. 3. Make fu

Bug#796642: debian-policy: hardening is an afterthought and should never be

2015-08-23 Thread Steve Langasek
Control: tags -1 = On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 12:46:22AM -0500, Richard Jasmin wrote: > SELinux ENABLED and ENFORCING and INSTALLED WITH SeTroubleshoot [like > Fedora has] This is not a question for policy. SELinux is not enabled by default in Debian because no one has gone to the effort of ensurin

Bug#796642: debian-policy: hardening is an afterthought and should never be

2015-08-22 Thread Richard Jasmin
Package: debian-policy Severity: normal Tags: newcomer upstream security Hardening according to many devs I have spoken with is an afterthought, especially post install. This is like reccommending Debian to be hacked. Im not saying one move can stop a hacker, security is always an ongoing situatio