sudo and changes in packaging guidelines

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 05:37:12PM +0200, Mattia Verga wrote:
> Greetings,
> I saw the changes in packaging guidelines related to PIE:
> 
> /If your package meets the following criteria you *MUST* enable the
> PIE compiler flags: /
> 
>  * /Your package is long running. This means it's likely to be started
>    and keep running until the machine is rebooted, not start on demand
>    and quit on idle. /
> 
>  * /Your package has suid binaries, or binaries with capabilities. /
> 
>  * /Your package runs as root. /

[from: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#PIE]

I'm not sure I understand how to parse this.

- Is the above an 'AND' or an 'OR' set of requirements?

- What happens if the program isn't written in C?

Rich.

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