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On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 06:44:44AM -0600, Justin Forbes wrote:
> Support and enforce are 2 completely different things.  To shed a bit
> more light on this, the real issue that prompted this was breaking CI
> systems.  As we enabled gcc plugins in Fedora, and the toolchain folks
> went through 3 different snapshots of gcc 11 in a week. Any CI process
> that built an out of tree module failed. I don't think this is nearly
> as much of a concern for stable distros, as it is for CI in
> development cycles.

And the answer is trivial: don't build out of tree modules.