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On 29/10/2012 14:37, Anthony G. Basile wrote: |
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> Anyhow, the question really remains, how to "deeply" test this package |
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> before adding it to the tree even ~arch? |
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a) check that there is nothing depending on =${oldver} — if there is, |
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notify maintainer; |
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b) check the documentation to see if there is something extremely |
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obvious that will break (with icu unfortunately that doesn't happen); |
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c) try to get betas and rcs in asap _but masked_; |
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d) call for a tinderbox run (I can do that with a quick email); |
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In this case all should have stopped at a) since libreoffice-bin has a |
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=49* dep, for obvious reasons. |
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Since there was no hurry of security issues to get icu-50 in, I don't |
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see why this was all forced through -50_rc without giving time to the |
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_one_ package that was using an older version to update. |
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Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes |
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flameeyes@×××××××××.eu — http://blog.flameeyes.eu/ |
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