Comment 13 for bug 7655

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Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 22:38:55 +0200
From: Andreas Barth <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: For i386, this issue could be clarified after release of sarge

tag 268603 +sarge-ignore
thanks

Hi,

I think we don't need to discuss about non-PIC for !i386 - this would be
plainly broken. But, as you told us, on !i386 the bug is not existent
(and looking at mips and alpha revealed no TEXTREL-section, so this
matches). So, this is not an issue in this case (but I remarked it if a
similar bugs happens to hit us, so that we remember in that case).

For i386, using non-PIC in a shared lib is in general a RC bug. But, in
this case the maintainers decision for not using it has reasons. Of
course, we need to discuss whether there are better ways to achive it,
without breaking policy. Implementing it as static lib comes to my mind
for that. However, I'd like a broader discussion, including input from
the security team, on using a static lib. Therefore, for the time scale
of sarge, there is probably no better solution available, and I'm
marking this bug as sarge-ignore.

Of course, please still feel free to fix it. ;)

Cheers,
Andi
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