• Enabling PIE by default for Stretch

    From Niels Thykier@21:1/5 to All on Mon Oct 10 07:50:01 2016
    Niels Thykier:
    Hi,

    As brought up on the meeting last night, I think we should try to go for
    PIE by default in Stretch on all release architectures!
    * It is a substantial hardening feature
    * Upstream has vastly reduced the performance penalty for x86
    * The majority of all porters believe their release architecture is
    ready for it.
    * We have sufficient time to solve any issues or revert if it turns out
    to be too problematic.

    [...]

    * Deadline for major concerns: Fri, 7th of October 2016.

    [...]

    Thanks,
    ~Niels

    [...]

    It appears that there were no major concerns. I will follow up #835148
    and request PIE by default for the following architectures.

    * amd64
    * arm64
    * armel
    * armhf
    * i386
    * mips
    * mips64el
    * mipsel
    * ppc64el
    * s390x

    Should you be a porter for an architecture not listed above and want PIE
    by default on your architecture, please follow up on #835148 as well (or
    a file a new wishlist bug if #835148 is closed when you do it)

    NB: The omission of powerpc was intentional as there were no porters
    supporting it during the roll-call.

    Thanks,
    ~Niels

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