Bug#685299: lintian: False positive from hardening-no-fortify-functions

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

On 2012-08-19 13:47, Roland Stigge wrote:
> Package: lintian
> Version: 2.5.10.1
> Severity: normal
> 
> Hi,
> 
> consider the following (guitarix 0.24.0-1 is in experimental):
> 
> $ lintian -i guitarix_0.24.0-1_i386.changes 
> [...]
>
> I already sorted out similar issues with upstream to correctly pass the correct
> dpkg-buildflags to the build. But the above is still present, even though it
> looks like everything (especially CPPFLAGS) is passed correctly.
> 
> See also the build log at https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=guitarix&arch=amd64&ver=0.24.0-1&stamp=1345247045
> 
> Maybe this is a false positive?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Roland 
> [...]

Hi,

It is quite likely to be a false-positive, but Lintian does not have
enough information to deduce that.
  Can you please run hardening-check --verbose on those binaries and
give return the result.

~Niels