[Pkg-phototools-devel] Bug#941742: FTBFS against Octave 5

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2019-10-04 Sébastien Villemot <sebastien at debian.org> wrote:
> Package: src:pfstools
> Version: 2.1.0-4
> Severity: serious
> Tags: patch ftbfs
> Control: block 934630 by -1

> Dear Maintainer,

> The Octave 5 transition has started, and pfstools FTBFS against the new
> version.

> The failure comes from the fact that mkoctfile now passes
> -Werror=format-security.

> I’m going to create a merge request on salsa with a proposed patch
> (once I have the bug number), just adding -Wno-error=format-security
> on the mkoctfile command line.

> Please tell me whether it’s ok for me to NMU, or if you want to fix this issue
> yourself.

I will use the upstream patch [1] which actually fixes the issue instead of
igoring the error.

cu Andreas

https://sourceforge.net/p/pfstools/git/merge-requests/1/