FTBFS if "-Werror=format-security" flag is used

[Florian Weimer]

On 12/05/2013 03:25 AM, mrnuke wrote:
> On 12/04/2013 12:10 PM, Brendan Jones wrote:
>>
>> This is just a pain. Can someone explain to me why this is good?
>>
> Good or not, this is not the right question to ask.
>
>   * Is this necessarry, and are the benefits worth the pains? *
>
> This change is Sofa King stupid.

I think the "F" in Fedora doesn't standard for this particular word. :(

 > Why couldn't we have just enabled the
> warning without turning it into an error, THEN let packagers work with
> upstream in fixing those warnings? Regulate, not ban.

For the current stage (filing bugs for known failures), it does not make 
much of a difference how the data is obtained about future build 
failures.  Filing bugs seems reasonable for tracking purposes.

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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security Team