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Bug#926060: lintian: portable-executable-missing-security-features false positives

From	"Chris Lamb" <lamby@debian.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist
Subject	Bug#926060: lintian: portable-executable-missing-security-features false positives
Date	2019-04-01 12:40 +0200
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Hi Scott,

> > > I'm reasonably confident that clamav testfiles don't need hardening
> > > features, so [1] seems pretty pointless.
> > 
> > I don't disagree at all here but I'm wondering how Lintian would be
> > able to detect that these are test files? Perhaps I'm missing
> > something. :)
> 
> I don't know.  I didn't look into how the test was implemented.

I guess my question was less about how the Lintian test is implemented
but rather how Lintian might potentially be able to determine
these .exe files are for internal testing purposes of your package.

> [if] we should override the test for this package as a result,
> that's fine.

… I strongly suspect this is the case, yeah. If you agree, please
go ahead and -done this issue. Thanks either way, naturally. :)


Best wishes,

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Bug#926060: lintian: portable-executable-missing-security-features false positives Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> - 2019-03-31 07:30 +0200
  Bug#926060: lintian: portable-executable-missing-security-features false positives "Chris Lamb" <lamby@debian.org> - 2019-04-01 11:00 +0200
    Bug#926060: lintian: portable-executable-missing-security-features false positives Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> - 2019-04-01 12:30 +0200
      Bug#926060: lintian: portable-executable-missing-security-features false positives "Chris Lamb" <lamby@debian.org> - 2019-04-01 12:40 +0200
        Bug#926060: lintian: portable-executable-missing-security-features false positives Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> - 2019-04-01 15:10 +0200
          Bug#926060: lintian: portable-executable-missing-security-features false positives "Chris Lamb" <lamby@debian.org> - 2019-04-03 18:40 +0200

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