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