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From: James Le Cuirot <chewi@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilisation procedure
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2016 08:23:28
Message-Id: 20161119082300.5bad8d75@symphony.aura-online.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilisation procedure by "Michał Górny"
1 On Sat, 19 Nov 2016 09:04:01 +0100
2 Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > Could we maybe include some place (metadata.xml?) to state what is
5 > the best way to test a package? I'm thinking it could include things
6 > like:
7 >
8 > - whether the test of the package are reliable,
9
10 Shouldn't you set RESTRICT="test" if they're not?
11
12 > - whether runtime testing is required and what kind of,
13 >
14 > - how likely it is that revdeps need to be checked.
15
16 These two sound good.
17
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19 James Le Cuirot (chewi)
20 Gentoo Linux Developer