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From:	Aron Griffis <agriffis@g.o>
To:	gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-dev] testing software: reporting compiler warnings?
Date:	Mon, 15 Dec 2003 14:55:07
Message-Id:	`20031215205507.GG2575@time`
In Reply to:	[gentoo-dev] testing software: reporting compiler warnings? by Gerold Strobel

1	Gerold Strobel wrote: [Sun Dec 14 2003, 10:42:08AM EST]
2	> How should I report the warnings? Via bugs.gentoo.org or directly to
3	> the software developers?
4
5	Please be careful when reporting directly to software developers. Keep
6	your CFLAGS to a minimum since upstream developers don't like getting
7	reports from Gentoo users who are over-optimizing.
8
9	When reporting warnings as a bug to upstream developers, it's far better
10	to include a patch since most are easily fixable.
11
12	Aron
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15	Aron Griffis
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