Re: Reintroducing critical warnings?

[Jonh Wendell <jwendell gnome org>]

Em Ter, 2008-02-19 às 22:05 -0500, Havoc Pennington escreveu:

> I don't see why a distribution would turn off fatal warnings for an
> unstable release. The point of an unstable release is to find bugs. So
> if there's a bug, crashing to invoke bug-buddy and encourage fixage
> makes sense. If a distribution is going to do a workaround patch, it
> should be to comment out any specific warnings in specific apps that
> are truly believed harmless, while filing an upstream bug against said
> apps to remove the bogus warning.

Indeed, but let's remember that doing something like that will crash not
only GNOME apps, but every [buggy] application linked to glib.

Perhaps the number of crashers bugs is too big for distros to deal
with :)

> But I guess the ability to invoke bug-buddy without crashing might be
> a nice approach.

Indeed.

Cheers,
-- 
Jonh Wendell
www.bani.com.br

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