Subject: Re: bug#57041: [PATCH] Add a word about warnings to CONTRIBUTE

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2022 17:05:09 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> 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.