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We've had -Werror forever, the consensus is it's a bad idea. In addition to everything else, you can't ever change the warnings, including fixing bugs in them, without potentially breaking code.



> We've had -Werror forever, the consensus is it's a bad idea.

Says who? Package repo maintainers? -Werror is actually quite divisive.


Anyone who wants to be able to compile a program with a different or newer compiler than the author last tested it on.




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