Re: automake transition breakages
- To: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
- Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Re: automake transition breakages
- From: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
- Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 18:00:42 +0100
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Russ Allbery writes ("Re: automake transition breakages"):
> Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> writes:
> > Meaning one needs to get a fix once; a random NMUer might need to chase
> > upstream patches (never a pleasure when fixing unrelated issues). Given
> > what you wrote, I'm not sure what it buys us to keep -Werror in
> > distribution packages, except for the possibly ticking time bomb.
>
> Well, the simple answer is that we avoid having to maintain local patches
> against the upstream source to remove -Werror, since generally it's not
> something over which we have a choice without patching the upstream
> source. It's usually expressed in configure.ac.
I don't think this is a sufficiently good reason to take the
portability hit.
Think, for example, about downstreams (including users) who may want
to forward-port a package to a different Debian release and thus a
different automake version.
For such a central tool as automake, we should tolerate lots of
version skew slop.
Ian.
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