Re: Questions about testing
>>"Anthony" == Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> writes:
Anthony> Well, even Joey Hess has slipped up in his religious debconf
Anthony> uploads and had four or five delays longer than a fortnight
Anthony> between updates. Basically, though, at some point the
Anthony> maintainer has to decide "I'm happy with this" and leave
Anthony> well enough alone for a little while.
Umm. This is an artifact of the implementation, and does not
seem to have a rational design principle behind it, unless I am being
very dense. If this is an implementation issue, we should note this
flaw (and perhaps move on until someone can come up with a working
solution)
Anthony> At worst, this could be done just before the freeze,
Anthony> although that seems like it'd be a bit risky. Alternatively,
Anthony> the maintainer can just upload it with a faked medium or
Anthony> high priority so that it'll go in earlier.
In the long term this needs to be reexamined. Perhaps
da-katies successors need to be tweaked to allow more than one
version in a distribution to stay in the pool, or something (I
confess I have not looked deeply into the problem, so my suggestions
may be totally (in the modern idiom), whack. I have little time to
work on the tweaks, so I'll hold my peace.
>> 4. How can I know precisely why my package has not been included in
>> testing. I know update_excuse.html on ajt website ... but that's not
>> enough. I want to know for example that my libdbd-pg-perl package is
>> waiting on perl-5.6 (or on postgresql) to be integrated ...
Anthony> You have to look at your dependency list, and investigate it
Anthony> yourself. :(
Where does the pice of code reside that determines whether or
not a package is going to be moved into testing? Can one extract that
code into a purely reporting agent?
manoj
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