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Re: Why not to let all DDs to execute "gb"-command



Chow Loong Jin <hyperair@debian.org> (11/06/2013):
> On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 10:29:33AM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote:
> > I said random, not deterministic. Giving back until a certain test
> > succeeds, for instance. Because some bad code triggers a segfault
> > on almost every try except that it sometimes works.
> 
> That's a rather extreme case. I'd expect any approved DD to know
> better than to do something stupid like that.

Expecting is nice, but performing a reality check[1] from time to time
is even better.

  1. https://lists.debian.org/debian-wb-team/

Mraw,
KiBi.

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