Re: Retrospective by 'gpg.fail' authors
Sam James replies to GnuPG author Werner Koch that upstream may freely adopt stricter -W compiler warnings, while distros should avoid blanket -Werror.
This is an oss-security mailing list reply by Sam James (Gentoo toolchain maintainer) to Werner Koch in the thread on the 'gpg.fail' authors' retrospective about GnuPG. James states that upstream projects like GnuPG should feel free to enable whatever -W* warning flags they need. He adds that distributions should not use -Werror indiscriminately, allowing narrow exceptions such as -Werror=format-security, and may reject warning-driven bugs that do not reflect real issues. No new CVE or vulnerability details are disclosed in this reply.
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