[hardening-discuss] Bug#592846: hardening-wrapper should not define symlinks for gcc versions that are not installed

[Vincent Lefevre]

Package: hardening-wrapper
Version: 1.29
Severity: wishlist

hardening-wrapper should not define symbolic links for gcc versions
that are not installed. For instance:

ypig% ls -l /usr/bin/gcc-4.5
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 2010-07-12 15:30:04 /usr/bin/gcc-4.5 -> hardened-cc
ypig% gcc-4.5 --version
/usr/bin/gcc-4.5: not found (hardened-cc could not find target)

I don't know whether this is fixable, but if it isn't, a note should
be added in the documentation (e.g.
/usr/share/doc/hardening-wrapper/README.Debian).

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages hardening-wrapper depends on:
ii  g++                           4:4.4.4-2  The GNU C++ compiler
ii  gcc                           4:4.4.4-2  The GNU C compiler
ii  perl                          5.10.1-14  Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

hardening-wrapper recommends no packages.

hardening-wrapper suggests no packages.

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