* Nicolas Bourdaud <nicolas.bourd...@gmail.com> [111114 12:29]:
> I believe, the reason is that -Wall is really useful only the developer,
> not the one who build the package.
>
> In addition, not all upstream projects are really warnings free (some
> developer never use -Wall -Wextra). So using them by default when
> building the package would generate a lot of noise that might hide more
> critical warnings.

Without -Wall you won't get some of the most "critical" warnings.
A package should really not be built without at least -Wall.

        Bernhard R. Link


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