On Mon, Jun 16, 2025 at 4:23 PM Branko Čibej <br...@apache.org> wrote:
> When building trunk (with autotools and maintainer-mode; to test with > serf-2), I get a lot of warnings like this one: > > .../subversion/svnadmin/svnadmin.c:2598:11: warning: > 'svn_opt_args_to_target_array3' is deprecated [-Wdeprecated-declarations] > 2598 | SVN_ERR(svn_opt_args_to_target_array3(&targets, os, > | ^ > > > These are relatively recent. Policy says that trunk should compile without > warnings in maintainer mode. This is on macOS with clang, there are similar > warnings in the autoconf worflow on GitHub. > > > There used to be a warnings-check builder that would fail in such cases, > but apparently it hasn't been ported to GH actions. > > -- Brane > > Hi Brane, Can you tell us a bit more about the policy that trunk should compile without warnings in maintainer mode? I ask because it doesn't seem to be documented in HACKING, and it seems surprising to me, since during development I would hope to see maximum warnings to catch issues early. (I'll be happy to improve HACKING once I have a better understanding...) Thanks, Nathan
