Re: intend-to-implement: script to obtain Debian Source
On 04-Apr-05, 02:48 (CDT), Pierre THIERRY <nowhere.man@levallois.eu.org> wrote:
> Scribit Adam Heath dies 01/04/2005 hora 19:10:
> > Additionally, as a way to weed out other problems, any patches that
> > are leafs(ie, don't depend on anything) are applied in a random order.
>
> For the sake of my curiosity:
>
> - what problems do thsi random order could weed?
Unnoted dependencies that just happen to be fulfilled due to a
consistent (though arbitrary) application order. By applying in a
different order each time, you should trigger an error fairly quickly.
> - won't it be more difficult to trakcs bugs if it isn't predictable?
If you get an error during the patching process, it should be fairly
easy to determine that it's an un-marked dependency, and then find it by
hand. You can also impose arbitrary dependencies among your supposedly
"independent" patches until you find the troublesome combination.
Steve
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