Package: lintian Version: 2.15.0 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, "hardening-no-fortify-functions" has extermely high false-positive rate. From reading of its description, I can see two groups of packages. First group of false-positives consists of packages that use little or none of standard library /directly/: - bcron - ftpcopy - runit - djbdns - ... You can check, these packages use CFLAGS/CPPFLAGS/LDFLAGS, provided by dpkg-buildflags via /usr/share/dpkg/default.mk (While I was writing this bug, I notices that in "runit" package I forgot LDFLAGS, but fix to include them changes nothing.) Secondly, even "gdbm" library (but not binary), which is conventional user of libc as whole and stdio in particular, triggers this tag. I believe, blhc(1) does everything this tag was supposed to do. -- Note, that I send and fetch email in batch, once in a few days. Please, mention in body of your reply when you add or remove recepients.
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