Am 23.08.2013 01:50, schrieb Adam Williamson: > On Fri, 2013-08-16 at 22:05 +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: >> since i have enough of bugzilla-mails as response of bugreports >> containing referecnes to any Fedora version but not the reported >> i consider this as bug in the distribution itself >> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=998035 >> >> *at least* a "we do not fix this in F18 because <short explaination>" >> or "it will most likely done in the next package-update for Fq8" >> would be what anybody who is wasting his time for verify things >> in the distribution and report bugs/guideline-violations should >> be a response >> ___________________________________ >> >> hence i even do not understand why not every maintainer is reading >> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#PIE and after >> logout from the DE calls "checksec --proc-all" and *MUST enable* >> in the guidelines is no opt-in >> >> as well as read things like >> http://tk-blog.blogspot.co.at/2009/02/relro-not-so-well-known-memory.html >> >> thanks god, some of the packages i reported in the last months >> are in the meantime fixed - but why maintainers and/or at least >> QA do not care that the guidelines are respected? > > We don't have the resources for all this stuff, to be honest which ressources? the main question is why *each* maintainer itself does not read the guidelines and check his own packages instead waiting for QA and people reporting bugs > I'd never seen any of the bugs you link in this mail before clearly, only the maintainer takes notice (or not) > There is no QA-matron which sees all bugs filed in Fedora, I'm afraid. > There's a small group of monkeys running as fast as we can to keep up > with release validation and update testing, pretty much that is why i wrote this mail to remember each single maintainer he should care itself if his packages are hardened and if they must or should - with or without a specific bugreport should not matter in this case taht's why in doubt the whole distribution should be hardened and this prelink-nonsense banned at all
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