* Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) wrote: > Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> writes: > > Julian Taylor <jtaylor.debian@googlemail.com> (2013-09-30): > > >> At minimum the packages using Werror should be test rebuilt before each > >> new upload: > >> http://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE.*-Werror > > >> The list is small enough that it can be done by hand / small script. > > > So that they stop using Werror? Good idea. > > I use -Werror for Automake for all of the packages for which I'm upstream > and have not noticed it being a serious issue, although maybe I'm missing > something? But I didn't have any trouble regenerating the files for my > various packages with Automake 1.14. The one that's been biting people is there's a new warning for configure.in being deprecated. So for a well maintained package or a good upstream this isn't going to be a problem. > -Werror for a compiler is a bad idea for Debian packages because, unless > you do extensive portability testing, it's quite likely that there will be > warnings on some platform on which the code is not regularly tested but > which aren't serious issues. Also, each new version of the compiler comes > with a ton of new warnings, most of which are not significant. > > Automake, by comparison, runs the same on every host, so if you've fixed > the warnings on your local system, they're fixed everywhere. And it has > considerably fewer warnings, and far fewer that are introduced in each new > version. > -- Eric Dorland <eric@kuroneko.ca> ICQ: #61138586, Jabber: hooty@jabber.com
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