Bug#864831: [Debian-science-sagemath] NTL update to 10.3.0

Julien Puydt julien.puydt at gmail.com
Thu Aug 31 07:04:12 UTC 2017


Hi,

Le 31/08/2017 à 00:10, Ximin Luo a écrit :
> Julien Puydt:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Le 29/08/2017 à 14:25, Tobias Hansen a écrit :
>>> Now is a good time for the NTL transition. Julien, could you update the
>>> package to 10.3.0? Then we can test-build the reverse dependencies and
>>> ask for a transition.
>>
>> Indeed there was a soname version bump from 27 to 35, so a transition is
>> in order.
>>
>> There also was a change of license, so I changed d/copyright -- I would
>> be glad if someone could check the result.
>>
>> Finally, lintian complains about hardening-no-fortify-functions and
>> hardening-no-bindnow, which means there's more digging to do for me.
>>
> 
> I'd ignore both:
> 
> 1. hardening-no-fortify-functions happens naturally when the library does not use any libc functions that change under -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 and this is probably a false positive
> 
> 2. hardening-no-bindnow is just due to dpkg-buildflags not defaulting that to on. If you really want to fix it you can
> 
> export DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS=hardening=+bindnow

Won't work : the configure script isn't an autotools script -- it calls
a DoConfig perl script, which does its own work in its own way. And of
course it won't respect what we fix...

Snark



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