sudo and changes in packaging guidelines

[Rex Dieter]

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. /
> 
> I maintain kde-partitionmanager and I wonder if I should apply PIE to
> that. 

It's not long running, so, I'd say no.

-- rex