Bug#646500: wordnet: FTBFS: binsrch.c:196:5: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security]

[Mònica Ramírez Arceda]

Source: wordnet
Version: 1:3.0-25
Severity: serious
Tags: wheezy sid
User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
Usertags: qa-ftbfs-20111022 qa-ftbfs
Justification: FTBFS on amd64

Hi,

During a rebuild of all packages in sid, your package failed to build on
amd64.

Relevant part:
>  gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I../include -I../include -g -O2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Wformat-security -Werror=format-security -Wall -c binsrch.c  -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/libwordnet_la-binsrch.o
> binsrch.c: In function 'replace_line':
> binsrch.c:196:5: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security]
> binsrch.c: In function 'insert_line':
> binsrch.c:223:5: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security]
> binsrch.c: At top level:
> binsrch.c:10:14: warning: 'Id' defined but not used [-Wunused-variable]
> cc1: some warnings being treated as errors
> 
> make[4]: *** [libwordnet_la-binsrch.lo] Error 1

The full build log is available from:
   http://people.debian.org/~lucas/logs/2011/10/22/wordnet_1:3.0-25_lsid64.buildlog

A list of current common problems and possible solutions is available at 
http://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/FTBFS . You're welcome to contribute!

About the archive rebuild: The rebuild was done on about 50 AMD64 nodes
of the Grid'5000 platform, using a clean chroot.  Internet was not
accessible from the build systems.