Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: taking a break from arches stabilization

[Rich Freeman]

On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 8:59 AM, Michael Palimaka <kensington@g.o> wrote:
> On 07/11/2017 09:29 AM, Andrew Savchenko wrote:
>>
>> Even if such stabilization is allowed, there are unanswered
>> questions here:
>> - is following seciton 4.1 from wg recommendations is sufficient?
>> - should developer test each stabilization candidate on an
>> up-to-date stable setup?
>
> The guidelines from that document are ripped straight out of the
> devmanual and are a good starting point but rather generic. You can find
> some more detailed suggestions on things to consider while testing on
> the wiki: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Package_testing
>

I think that in practice arch teams don't do have the stuff on that
wiki page.  Maybe some people do, but back when I was an amd64 AT I
don't think anybody went testing multiple USE combinations for a
typical package.

However, to directly answer one of Andrew's questions, yes, you
definitely should test on a stable system/chroot/container.  I've seen
a few package updates over the years that wouldn't even build and it
was probably because whoever keyworded it never even tried building it
with stable dependencies.  That is pretty rare though.

-- 
Rich