From: mh+debian-devel@zugschlus.de 
  
 Hello, 
  
 sudo maintainer here. 
  
 On Thu, Aug 21, 2025 at 04:48:35PM +0200, Marcos Del Sol Vives wrote: 
 >> The corresponding Debian issue are probably #1004893 and #1043281 
 >> which was boiled down to a GCC issue, #1005863 and 
 >> https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=104713 
 >> 
  
 ---- BEGIN my words ---- 
 >> As the sudo maintainer, I am reluctant to turn off a hardening feature 
 >> to support ancient CPUs. I would be reluctant to do that for a normal 
 >> package, but ESPECIALLY for a package like sudo which is installed 
 >> nearly everywhere and contains an suid root binary. 
 ---- END my words ---- 
  
 >Would it be acceptable to, rather than disable it entirely as previously 
 >proposed, enable CET only when compiling for IA64 (amd64), but not for any 
 >other architecture? 
  
 As mentioned above, the answer is no. I am not willing to turn off a 
 hardening feature for the entire architcture to support ancient CPUs. 
  
 The Technical Committee might give advice to do it anyway. 
  
 >Hardware that support it for sure would still be protected that way 
  
 No, there is i386 hardware that can run current sudo just fine. As far 
 as I know, only a certain CPU family that has some market share in the 
 thin client market is affected by this. 
  
 Current sudo is perfectly usable on most i386 CPUs. 
  
 Gretings 
 Marc 
  
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