Re: [hertzog@debian.org: Re: Woody retrospective and Sarge introspective]
Le Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 02:47:50PM +0100, Mark Brown écrivait:
> So after testing with the versions in unstable for a while package gets
> built and reuploaded against a potentially completely different set of
> packages?
Yes, but they still have to go through the "testing scripts" ensuring
that no new RC bugs have been found on those recompiled package and that
they compile on all arches.
> That seems more than a little suboptimal since it reduces the
> benefits of the testing that has been done. It also does nothing to
> address problems with undeclared dependencies breaking testing.
Partially it does, because people testing t-p-u will file RC bugs against the
package because they are testing in an environment that is 80% "testing"
(and 20% "t-p-u"). The bug is likely to be detected before it enters
testing.
I expect t-p-u to be quite small compared to a complete distribution
because :
- packages would enter testing more easily (we don't have dependencies
problem)
- t-p-u could be purged of packages that are not able to enter
testing after a certain delay
(t-p-u is not meant to be a complete distribution and is not meant to
be used to compile things against it)
> Plus, either source only uploads will have to be supported or people
> will have to have give themselves a testing environment to do things in
Yes. But it's getting easy to setup a testing chroot for your builds.
Cheers,
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Raphaël Hertzog -+- http://strasbourg.linuxfr.org/~raphael/
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