On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 01:46:20PM +0100, Vincent Bernat wrote: > As a rule of thumb, upstream usually knows better than me which tests > are important. Tests are quite important for the packager to know if > they didn't make an obvious mistake when updating a package (e.g new > dependency missing, something easy to miss by testing manually). Test > are quite important in a team as you may have to update the package > while knowing little about it (e.g adding a security patch). I get why tests are useful. I just think unreliable tests do more harm then good. (Mostly because this leads to ignoring those tests completely. BTDT.) -- cheers, Holger
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