Re: Provenpackagers dealing with -Werror=format-security issues

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On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 05:20:46PM +0000, Tomasz Kłoczko wrote:
> On 19 March 2017 at 16:24, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> 
> > > As I wrote it has potentially very useful case to have maximum level
> > > reporting compile errors on distribution level.
> > > koji could parse build logs and count total number of compile time
> > warning
> > > and in own build report put that in release N it was more/less such
> > > warnings than in Release N-1.
> > I think the S/N ratio would be very low here. In previous mail I
> > listed various classes of warnings which are best ignored. If you want
> > to fix things, go project by project and submit patches upstream.
> > Don't force it on all maintainers.
> This is not about quantity but *quality* ..
We're speaking past one another clearly. I also feel you're suggesting
quantity (of warnings) over their quality.

> > > In case introduction of new gcc with which may start reporting new
> > warnings
> > > full verbosity of the compile warning will allow "in combat" asses impact
> > > reporting these warnings on whole distribution scale.
> > > With source tree maintainers email addresses in some database it may be
> > > even possible to sent automatic report to these maintainers about those
> > > warnings.
> > No thank you, but no.

> I have allergy on answers "no because no" and similar like  "no thank you,
> but no" ;-)
> Can you explain why?
I think I gave my reasons pretty clearly: low S/N + automatic propagation = spam.
Do I need to explain further?

Zbyszek
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