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From: Kristian Fiskerstrand <k_f@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o, Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing policy about -Werror
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2018 21:11:07
Message-Id: e0b68a4a-1c77-50a1-41cf-7b801aee2ab4@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing policy about -Werror by Kristian Fiskerstrand
1 On 9/10/18 11:04 PM, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote:
2 > On 9/10/18 11:01 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
3 >
4 >> It's quite a bit harder for a user to remove -Werror from the build
5 >> system, assuming they can even interpret the error output.
6 >>
7 >
8 > Sure, but at some point it matters whether this is a leaf package or
9 > something that is a core dependency.
10 >
11 > That it wasn't caught before being stabilized on several arches was
12 > indeed bad, but that likely says more about our stabilization procedures
13 > than the quality of the underlying package's upstream choices.
14 >
15
16 What I'm saying here is mostly that more tinderboxing is a good thing to
17 capture all kinds of issues, and for upstreams being responsive Gentoo
18 is a good way of providing valuable input.
19
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