On Fri, 19 Feb 2016 13:07:53 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > But I say, there should not be any room for -Werror in production > SW/packages. > > The fact, > * different version of gcc raise different warnings > * gcc on different architectures raise different warnings. > * gcc raises warnings on coding styles. > makes -Werror non-suiteable for long-term maintainance.
You miss here false warnings (errors) are much less costly than a missed warning (errors). If upstream package is free of warnings thanks to -Werror then a Fedora packaging should not introduce so many warnings they would not be manageable by its Fedora maintainer. Jan -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
