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From: Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI-2 - Let's get it started
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 06:02:21
Message-Id: 484F6A3A.9000500@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI-2 - Let's get it started by Ciaran McCreesh
1 Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2 > On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:49:44 +0200
3 > Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o> wrote:
4 >> I thought tests were already supposed to pass whatever the EAPI is and
5 >> devs were supposed to run them...
6 >
7 > Supposedly. But in practice this isn't true, because far too many
8 > developers just don't care.
9
10 and having it forced in the eapi won't change this.
11
12 > Enforcing src_test in a "you must explicitly say so if your package's
13 > test suites are expected to fail" way on an EAPI bump is a clean way of
14 > recovering from this.
15
16 You are assuming that every package has a test (false), nobody will have
17 src_test dummified.
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19 lu
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23 Luca Barbato
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Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI-2 - Let's get it started Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>