Cyril Brulebois <k...@debian.org> writes: > Julian Taylor <jtaylor.deb...@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. -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. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87k3hyciwl....@windlord.stanford.edu
