On Tue, 09 Aug 2011 19:45:15 +0200, Matthew Garrett wrote: > If a package fails to build in a mass rebuild because -Werror was enabled > then that's additional work for several people to fix something that may not > have ever actually been broken.
99% of warnings will not lead to user visible bugs. Finding that remaining 1% of bugs (warnings) takes more than 100x time than to fix the warnings. I base by -Werror recommendation on this assumption, YMMV. > Warnings are appropriate during development. It also depends how much / if do you consider the packager to be also the package developer. > I just don't think there's any way that the improvement in quality it'd > bring to the distribution outweighs the extra effort involved in maintaining > it whenever the toolchain changes. The new warnings in toolchain intend to point at more problematic/buggy points in the code. It seems you disagree with my 99-1 assumption above, I agree I do not have such statistics proven anywhere. Thanks, Jan -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
