On Fri, 3 May 2013 16:06:01 +0800
Ben de Groot <[email protected]> wrote:
> Personally I've always thought -Werror is a mistake in release code,
> but was accepted practice. I've almost never actively removed it from
> packages I maintain. That will change now, upon learning of this
> policy.
Debian here and there actively fixes compiler warnings by enabling
-Werror and then checking what fails to build. I even see revision
bumps because of some of the milder compiler warnings. Maybe other
distros do this as well. It's kind of a blunt instrument to perform QA
with, but I guess it does get code cleaned up slightly better than with
no checks at all or by merely depending on runtime failures to be
reported.
jer
