On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 12:43:36AM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: > > > Stack protector is not a new requirement in Fedora. It's been part of > > the distribution for years. > > xterm has been part of the distribution for years also, but it's not a > release requirement. The assumption has always been that all primary architectures embody the same level of functionality, with the exception of fundamental differences between the architectures. If things that are currently supported by the primary architectures cease to be supported by the primary architectures, that's a strong argument that they're not fundamental to Fedora. For example, in the absence of hardware nx support, I wouldn't argue that ARM should be forced to implement execshield - both because it's fundamentally tied to 32-bit x86, and because we've given up on supporting it. But yes, if ARM wanted to ship without xterm while the other primary architectures supported it, I'd say that that would be a blocker for shipping ARM as a primary architecture. I think what's been missed here is that the secondary architecture promotion guidelines were intended to be an addition to common sense rather than a replacement for it. They didn't seek to be an exhaustive list of things that had to be present for something to be a PA - they were an attempt to shape out the grey areas. A primary architecture should include everything that one could reasonable expect to be present in Fedora, which includes security features. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
