Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy
On Wed, 30 Mar 2011, Michael Tautschnig wrote:
> > # package quality
> > Advocate: Holger Levsen and Luk Claes
> > State: confirmed
> > Wiki: http://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/PackagesQuality
> > This is a never ending goal of sustaining our packages quality by
> > improving our tests and following up closely... so needless to say that
> > I would still advocate this one.
> I would advocate the idea behind this goal as well, yet I think as-is this isn't
> a very useful goal: how would we ever measure its achievement? To this end, I
guarantee build-time run of unittests if such are provided by upstream.
in my experience those were really helpful, especially for exotic
architectures.
side-question: what to do about source packages shipping only binary
packages of arch 'all' (thus not rebuilt by the farm) while still
susceptible to architectures specificity.
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