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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 57041@debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
Subject: bug#57041: [PATCH] Add a word about warnings to CONTRIBUTE
Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2022 17:05:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sfm8ytzu.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8335e8xfpk.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 07 Aug 2022 17:59:03 +0300")

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> But I see no particular reasons to describe exceptions.

This does seem useful to state explicitly:

+ we don't
+usually care about warnings from ancient or buggy compilers, but we do
+try to pacify warnings from stable versions of GCC.

Because it has happened that people have submitted patches to pacify
ancient gcc versions, and that's not useful work.






  reply	other threads:[~2022-08-07 15:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-08-07 14:42 bug#57041: [PATCH] Add a word about warnings to CONTRIBUTE Stefan Kangas
2022-08-07 14:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-07 15:05   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2022-08-07 15:15     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-18 10:55       ` Stefan Kangas

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