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Hi, |
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Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>: |
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> On Mon, 9 Mar 2009 22:33:11 +0100 |
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> Christian Faulhammer <fauli@g.o> wrote: |
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> > Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>: |
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> > > Next, some probably easy but long standing features: |
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> > > |
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> > > * src_test run unless RESTRICTed or explicitly disabled by the |
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> > > user (bug 184812) |
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> > A big no. This will lead to many failures on user systems, people |
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> > who run stable will be greatly annoyed. I know this is inspired by |
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> > good intentions, but will not have the desired effect. |
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> |
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> People who run stable won't see test failures, because developers and |
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> arch testers and ~arch users will all have run the tests already and |
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> made sure there aren't any failures. And if there *are* failures that |
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> make it past all three levels of checking before stable, they really |
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> need to be investigated -- chances are they're showing a legitimate |
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> problem. |
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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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V-Li |
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-- |
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Christian Faulhammer, Gentoo Lisp project |
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<URL:http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/>, #gentoo-lisp on FreeNode |
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<URL:http://www.faulhammer.org/> |
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