On 29/07/14 07:26, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > Btw, the 0006-Build-without-Werror.patch change you propose seem like > a wrong approach to me. Is it not better to fix the warnings than > making warnings less serious?
Ideally, it is better to fix the warnings *and* make them less serious. For distributions, the next best thing is to build without -Werror. New compiler versions frequently introduce new warnings (usually because the compiler has improved and now warns about more bad things, or occasionally because it has new false positives) and it doesn't help anyone if previously-working code starts failing to build. For upstream development, sure, -Werror all the way. In the Telepathy project we have configure.ac set up so releases build with non-fatal warnings by default, but random snapshots from git build with fatal warnings by default (apart from a couple of undesired warnings which we explicitly silence) - in practice this means the people who get the warnings are exactly those who are well-placed to fix them. S -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org