On 05/03/2013 09:46 AM, Jeroen Roovers wrote: > On Fri, 3 May 2013 16:06:01 +0800 > Ben de Groot <yng...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >> Personally I've always thought -Werror is a mistake in release code, >> but was accepted practice. I've almost never actively removed it from >> packages I maintain. That will change now, upon learning of this >> policy. > > Debian here and there actively fixes compiler warnings by enabling > -Werror and then checking what fails to build. I even see revision > bumps because of some of the milder compiler warnings. Maybe other > distros do this as well. It's kind of a blunt instrument to perform QA > with, but I guess it does get code cleaned up slightly better than with > no checks at all or by merely depending on runtime failures to be > reported.
I'm sure it's intended by upstreams as a blunt QA instrument. I know at least one project that operates in that way. For Gentoo, this sounds like something that could be relegated to a testing stage, but not enabled by default for end users.
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