On Fri, 19 Feb 2016 13:07:53 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
But I say, there should not be any room for -Werror in production
SW/packages.
The fact,
* different version of gcc raise different warnings
* gcc on different architectures raise different warnings.
* gcc raises warnings on coding styles.
makes -Werror non-suiteable for long-term maintainance.
You miss here false warnings (errors) are much less costly than a missed
warning (errors). If upstream package is free of warnings thanks to -Werror
then a Fedora packaging should not introduce so many warnings they would not
be manageable by its Fedora maintainer.
Jan