[Pkg-octave-devel] [RFU] octave-pkg-dev 1.3.3

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Rafael Laboissiere <rafael at laboissiere.net> [2016-02-02 10:29]:

> * Sébastien Villemot <sebastien at debian.org> [2016-02-01 18:20]:
>
>> In the particular case of the feature that you propose to activate 
>> (bindnow), it seems that it has no drawback, so I am not opposed to 
>> it, though I would still prefer to stick to the default flags by 
>> principle.
>
> I have no strong feeling on this.  I was just following the Lintian 
> suggestion.

In the Lintian description of the hardening-no-bindnow tag [1], we read:

"If the ELF binary does not rely on late binding of symbols (e.g. weak 
symbols), then please consider enabling this feature. Otherwise, please 
consider overriding the tag (possibly with a comment about why)."

The issue then is whether Octave does early or late binding when loading 
.oct files.  Does anyone here know it ?

Rafael

1. https://lintian.debian.org/tags/hardening-no-bindnow.html