Re: pkg/38508 (gnupg2 won't build)

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Sat, 6 Jun 2009 20:56:23 +0000
David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:

> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 07:57:05AM +1000, Steven Bellovin wrote:
>  > > State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback
>  > > State-Changed-By: dholland%NetBSD.org@localhost
>  > > State-Changed-When: Mon, 25 May 2009 04:08:09 +0000
>  > > State-Changed-Why:
>  > > Is that fix good enough? (Or is it a hack for which a real fix is
>  > > wanted?)
>  >
>  > What does that option do?  In other words, what am I losing
>  > without it enabled?
> 
> maintainer-mode generally enables things like extra warnings and
> -Werror that you don't need or necessarily even want unless you're
> hacking on the package.
> 
> The question is whether in this case turning it off is just masking a
> real problem, and I don't know for sure. Although it doesn't really
> look like it.
> 
Nor do I, but I'll defer to you on this one.


                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb