On 1/4/21 2:27 AM, Florian Weimer wrote: > >>> A lot of the existing RPM post-processing steps detect, report, and >>> ignore errors because the generated RPM package might still be partially >>> useful. >> True, but ignoring the error in this case runs the very real risk that a >> package could install a .o/.a file with no code/symbols. That in turn >> can cause downstream FTBFS errors in other packages and all kinds of >> headaches on developer systems. Failing the build here seems much safer. >> >> Contrast to ignoring a dwz error. The resulting binary RPMs are still >> very much usable, the debuginfo packages are just larger than is >> strictly necessary. > The downside is that toolchain bugs tend to go unnoticed and aren't > fixed as a result. Right. And I think that's been a real problem. I really dislike ignoring errors :( jeff _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
