Bug#695319: lintian: False positive: hardening-no-fortify-functions

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

Control: forcemerge 685299 -1

On 2012-12-07 01:24, Benjamin Drung wrote:
> Package: lintian
> Version: 2.5.10.2
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> lintian produces inter alia following output for VLC:
> 
> $ lintian vlc_2.0.3-4_amd64.changes 
> [...]
> 
> The hardening dpkg-buildflags are passed to the build system. The build log
> looks like everything (including CPPFLAGS) is handled correctly. Most of the
> vlc plugins are correctly detected to use fortified libc functions. I see no
> difference in the logs between to detected and non detected plugins. Therefore
> I assume that the lintian warnings are false positives.
> 
> Versions of packages lintian depends on:
> ii  hardening-includes             2.2
> 

The majority (but not all) of the tags have disappeared with the fix for
#685299.  Though I cannot fix all them without completely neutering the
check.

~Niels