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Re: resiprocate/hardening-no-fortify-functions problems



On 21/05/12 16:22, Arno Töll wrote:
> On 21.05.2012 17:02, Daniel Pocock wrote:
>> After building, I check the binaries, it seems to think they were
>> hardened, but some intermittent issues with `Fortify Source functions'
>> and lintian (on mentors) complains
> 
> The hardening-check tool (which is used by Lintian, too) is known to
> emit false positives. See #673112 for an up to date discussion for that
> problem.
> 


Do I need to use a lintian-override in this case, or should I just
ignore the warnings?

I would prefer not to include an override in the package as someone
might forget to take them out later whenever hardening-check is more
definite


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