[Aptitude-devel] aptitude 0.6.6-1 available on mentors.d.n

Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo manuel.montezelo at gmail.com
Tue Mar 27 22:39:20 UTC 2012


2012/3/27 Axel Beckert <abe at debian.org>:
>> These are used only by the dh commands in debian/rules and
>> so work fine.
>
> And it actually FTBFS if you add the "export".

FTBFS?  Dunno, but I'm not the only one using exports:

http://web.dodds.net/~vorlon/wiki/blog/Debian:_not_stale_just_hardened/
http://wiki.debian.org/HardeningWalkthrough
http://wiki.debian.org/Hardening

And even:
http://anonscm.debian.org/loggerhead/apt/debian-sid/annotate/head:/debian/rules

Maybe I'm missing something and DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS case is
different than other environment vars related with hardening like the
compiler flags, or maybe the export has been deprecated or rendered
unnecessary, or never required but all of these documents/folks do it
even if it's not necessary... but I don't think that using "export" is
wrong at all and much less causes FTBFS.

Another thing is if, with the current aptitude debian/rules is
necessary or not.  I just wanted to raise awareness in the case that
it was an issue and the hardening was actually not happening.

Cheers.



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