Russ Allbery writes ("Re: automake transition breakages"): > Cyril Brulebois <k...@debian.org> writes: > > Meaning one needs to get a fix once; a random NMUer might need to chase > > upstream patches (never a pleasure when fixing unrelated issues). Given > > what you wrote, I'm not sure what it buys us to keep -Werror in > > distribution packages, except for the possibly ticking time bomb. > > Well, the simple answer is that we avoid having to maintain local patches > against the upstream source to remove -Werror, since generally it's not > something over which we have a choice without patching the upstream > source. It's usually expressed in configure.ac.
I don't think this is a sufficiently good reason to take the portability hit. Think, for example, about downstreams (including users) who may want to forward-port a package to a different Debian release and thus a different automake version. For such a central tool as automake, we should tolerate lots of version skew slop. Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/21080.11962.362610.215...@chiark.greenend.org.uk