Re: Auto reject if autopkgtest of reverse dependencies fail or cause FTBFS
Hello all,
Scott Kitterman [Fri, 13 Jan 2017 13:54:26 -0500]
> Probably the simplest way to avoid problems with systems like this is to
> remove any autopkg tests your packages are shipping.
>
> P.S. Perverse incentives FTW.
No, that won't work at all. If you upload libfoo which regresses a reverse
dependency bar and bar's tests now fail, then removing libfoo's autopkgtests
won't help you *at all* in landing the new libfoo in testing. You'd need to
convince bar's maintainer to change/drop the test.
The carrot for adding tests is that the better they are, the harder you make it
for *other people* (i. e. your dependencies) to break your software. The stick
is that you then of course need to make/keep your own tests running so that you
can upload new versions of libfoo yourself.
So IMHO the incentives are quite right here.
Martin
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