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From: hasufell <hasufell@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] stabilizing libraries without testing reverse deps
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2013 17:32:34
Message-Id: 524C58A6.6050303@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] stabilizing libraries without testing reverse deps by yac
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4 On 10/02/2013 06:43 PM, yac wrote:
5 >> So if you're relying on the presence of filed bugs to give some
6 >> sort of coverage metric, you're going to be out of luck from time
7 >> to time. For instance, that fun bug where stabilising a version
8 >> of libraw broke the things depending upon it that were already
9 >> stable.
10 >>
11 >> Its ironic really, thats essentially a hidden bug that exists as
12 >> a result of having two tiers of testing.
13 >>
14 >> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=458516
15 >>
16 >> I've been long wishing there was a FEATURE I could turn on that
17 >> would just report installs to a database somewhere, showing
18 >> success/fail/succcess+tests/fail+tests , with dependencies,
19 >> useflags, and other relevant context, so you'd at least have a
20 >> dataset of *success* rates, and you could do more heavy testing
21 >> on things where there were fail results, or an absense of
22 >> results.
23 >
24 > +1
25 >
26
27 yo
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