GNU bug report logs - #61730
30.0.50; Compiler warnings for delq and delete

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Message #53 received at 61730 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: rms <at> gnu.org
Cc: michael_heerdegen <at> web.de, mattias.engdegard <at> gmail.com,
 61730 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: Re: bug#61730: 30.0.50; Compiler warnings for delq and delete
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2023 10:11:25 +0200

> From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
> Cc: eliz <at> gnu.org, mattias.engdegard <at> gmail.com, 61730 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
> 	monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca
> Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2023 23:15:56 -0500
> 
> People won't mind a rare spurious warning if the warning message
> usually indicates a real problem.  But if it is the opposite way,
> people will see the warning as annoying bureaucracy and resent it.

In Emacs maintenance and development, the two cases are actually one.
We rebuild Emacs so frequently that even a "rare" warning appears all
the time and is annoying.  It is not a coincidence that we usually
don't tolerate warnings during the build of Emacs.

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