On 05/03/2013 03:46 PM, Jeroen Roovers wrote:
> On Fri, 3 May 2013 16:06:01 +0800
> Ben de Groot <yng...@gentoo.org> 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
> 

We don't need that. We already get QA warnings for severe compiler
warnings with a note that it should be reported upstream.

Turning them into errors does not improve anything.

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