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On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Ciaran McCreesh |
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<ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Mon, 9 Mar 2009 23:20:03 +0100 |
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> Christian Faulhammer <fauli@g.o> wrote: |
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>> Package A goes stable, test suite passes. Package B (a dependency of |
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>> A) goes stable in a newer version, which will cause A to not merge in |
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>> stable profile. This happens all the time and is no special case. |
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> Uh, you *are* testing things that use a library before you stable that |
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> library, right? |
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You can't test everything. I think for a small project like exherbo |
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where everyone basically sees eye to eye on a number of ideas this |
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works great. Everyone agrees testing is super and they will fix |
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broken tests or RESTRICT them. But Gentoo is bigger, and people have |
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varying opinions, and on this topic the opinions are rather strong; so |
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I kindly ask that you drop it. There are plenty of other far more |
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useful features on your list that are worth your time and will |
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actually slide through rather quickly ;) |
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> Besides, if a newer version of a library breaks a package using it, you |
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> most definitely want to know about it before you end up merging |
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> something that won't work. If src_test is failing where it used to |
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> work, it's a very good sign that something's broken, and you shouldn't |
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> be carrying on. |
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> -- |
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> Ciaran McCreesh |
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