There was an issue[1] with GCC7 during the mass-rebuild. Despite the Fedora-wide
setting of -Werror=format-security, GCC did not process its command-line
properly and an unknown number of packages were built without this flag
appropriately set. As a result, all of those packages built successfully during
the mass-rebuild, where many should in fact have reported compilation errors and
been rejected.
As part of the modular builds that the Base Runtime is performing, we need to
rebuild all packages that are going into the base runtime (as well as the set of
packages required to self-host the base runtime). Because GCC has been updated
to properly handle the CLI arguments, somewhere between two and three dozen
packages now throw errors on building.
Because we are under time-constraints, Petr Šabata and myself will be using our
provenpackager privileges to apply patches to these packages without waiting for
maintainer correspondence. The patches will be very simple, as the fix for this
issue will be in most cases the equivalent of replacing printf(variable) with
printf("%s", variable)
In very rare cases where the fix is non-obvious, we may take the short-term
solution of setting -Wno-format-security for that package and open a Bugzilla
for the maintainer to fix it properly (or engage upstream to do the same).
[1]
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/thread/GSA63D76T3K7EHSWNKNN2Y2UMYIIXZZE/
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