Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing policy about -Werror

[Mike Gilbert]

On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 5:31 PM Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 5:01 PM Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 4:56 PM Kristian Fiskerstrand <k_f@g.o> wrote:
> > >
> > > On 9/10/18 10:51 PM, Matt Turner wrote:
> > > > Consider again the bug that started this. The maintainer had not built
> > > > this configuration. None of the arch teams had built this
> > > > configuration until I did for the last architecture Cc'd. The patch
> > > > committed doesn't change anything installed on the system, if not for
> > > > Werror preventing the code from building.
> > >
> > > one way to look at it though, is that it is a valuable upstream
> > > contribution that this configuration produces the error, so Gentoo is
> > > contributing to upstream development because of it.
> >
> > As an end user of Gentoo, I may not care about "contributing to
> > upstream"; I just want the software to compile and install.
> >
>
> For more critical packages (like the example of zfs) whether it
> compiles and installs isn't 1/10th as important as whether it eats my
> data...

I was clearly responding to the "contributing upstream" argument,
which has nothing to do with eating data.