Package: autogen Version: 1:5.17.4-2 It is not a particularly intelligent warning. After all, if your format pointer points to some offset within a character array (that happens to be just after a NUL byte), why would you expect no further NUL bytes? Oh, well. That's why I broke out that warning from the other formatting warnings in GCC. Please suppress it.
I don't use Debian, but I got a build failure report for MIPS: https://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=autogen&arch=mips&ver=1%3A5.17.4-2&stamp=1373223863&file=log libtool: compile: gcc -std=gnu99 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I.. -I../autoopts -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -DPKGDATADIR=\"/usr/share/autogen\" -g -O2 -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wall -c libopts.c -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/libopts_la-libopts.o In file included from libopts.c:24:0: enum.c: In function 'enum_err': enum.c:114:13: warning: embedded '\0' in format [-Wformat-contains-nul] fprintf(option_usage_fp, ENUM_ERR_LINE, *(paz_names++)); ^ enum.c:137:9: warning: embedded '\0' in format [-Wformat-contains-nul] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org