GNU bug report logs - #57041
[PATCH] Add a word about warnings to CONTRIBUTE

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>

Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2022 14:43:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: patch, wontfix

Done: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #11 received at 57041 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 57041 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Subject: Re: bug#57041: [PATCH] Add a word about warnings to CONTRIBUTE
Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2022 17:05:09 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> 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.
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