Nicolas Bourdaud <[email protected]> writes: > On 14/11/2011 14:32, Bernhard R. Link wrote: >> Without -Wall you won't get some of the most "critical" warnings. >> A package should really not be built without at least -Wall. > > I understand, and I think it is a pity that some software produce way > too many warnings when compiled with -Wall and -Wextra. > > However is it not already too late to catch those warnings when the > package is being built? IMO, they should have been taken care in > upstream. Or do you consider to *massively* patch the source to fix the > warnings?
Fix them? Not neccessarily. Certainly not all. But it makes it easier to prod upstream into fixing them himself. There's also no real harm in enabling -Wall. It makes build logs bigger in the worst case. But the benefits, imo, far outweight that. -- |8] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
