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

[Adam Jackson]

On Sun, 2013-12-08 at 01:17 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Michael scherer wrote:
> > There is enough software not building anymore and dropped after mass
> > rebuild to show that such problem are not really so uncommon.
> 
> … the difference is that in this case, the offending code is actually 
> perfectly compliant to the C or C++ standard, and rejecting it is a 
> violation of the relevant standard (in addition to being backwards-
> incompatible).

Allow me to suggest something that really shouldn't be controversial,
but probably is, because this is the internet: standards compliance for
its own sake is not actually worthwhile.

- ajax