> On Sep 14, 2018, at 3:29 PM, Michael Orlitzky <m...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >> On 09/14/2018 01:52 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: >> >> Wouldn't the flip side of this be demonstrating that this has actually >> caused issues? If following upstream discovers no bugs and also >> causes no issues, why not leave it to maintainer discretion? >> > > We know it causes issues, there are hundreds of bugs about it (bugzilla > stops counting at 500 on a search for "Werror"). > > No one has answered the question: what do you do when a stable package > breaks because of a new warning? > > If there's no answer to that question that doesn't involve making an > unofficial in-place downstream-only edit to a piece of code that is (by > the opposing argument) intensely security-critical in a stable package, > then we're all wasting our time talking about this. Wouldn’t this be largely covered as part of GCC stabilization? We could reserve the right to kill -Werror in a package where it blocks GCC stabilization if the maintainer does not handle it in a timely manner. >
- Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing policy about -Werror Alon Bar-Lev
- Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing policy about -Werror Richard Yao
- Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing policy about -Werror Alon Bar-Lev
- Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing policy about -Werr... Rich Freeman
- Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing policy about -Werr... Michał Górny
- Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing policy about -Werr... Alon Bar-Lev
- Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing policy about -Werr... Michał Górny
- Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing policy about -Werr... Alon Bar-Lev
- Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing policy about -Werr... Rich Freeman
- Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing policy about -Werr... Michael Orlitzky
- Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing policy about -Werr... Richard Yao
- Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing policy about -Werr... Michael Orlitzky
- Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing policy about -Werr... Rich Freeman
- Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing policy about -Werr... Fabian Groffen
- Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing policy about -Werr... Alon Bar-Lev
- Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing policy about -Werr... Fabian Groffen
- Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing policy about -Werr... Alon Bar-Lev
- Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing policy about -Werr... Fabian Groffen
- Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing policy about -Werr... Richard Yao
- Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing policy about -Werr... Alon Bar-Lev
- Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing policy about -Werr... Richard Yao