Comment by johnfn

But the whole idea is that a warning is a warning. Solving a warning can be deferred, and a warning doesn't cause execution to fail. Your warning was transmuting itself into an error. I feel like "All means are fair except solving the problem" is the wrong conclusion to draw here. If it should have been solved immediately, it should have been an error in the first place. (And then you should have politely bumped the version so that you don't immediately break the code of all your dependents.) If there is no need to solve it immediately, then "all means are fair" to convert it back to a warning as was originally intended.