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

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

The following reply was made to PR pkg/38508; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>
To: David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, shannonjr%netbsd.org@localhost, 
pkgsrc-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/38508 (gnupg2 won't build)
Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2009 18:15:30 -0400

 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