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Re: How to contribute ?



On Sun, Jan 02, 2022 at 11:07:10AM -0600, Zebediah Figura wrote:
> > > > > vkd3d 1.2-6 in Experimental is not usable in Sid because it needs
> > > > > mesa-vulkan-driver << 21.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Michael did that because vkd3d tests fails during building. I don't know
> > > > > why because it fails with mesa 20 too.
> > > > > 
> > > > > I opened a bug report upstream and wine/vkd3d developer told me that there
> > > > > is this issue because of nobody has the same GPU (someone can have the
> > > > > error and someone else not)
> > > > The tests shouldn't access the GPU though so it shouldn't depend on actual
> > > > hardware.
> > > 
> > > Sorry, can you please clarify? libvkd3d is essentially a GPU driver (well,
> > > translation layer), so its tests need to access the GPU or they're
> > > meaningless.
> > OK, if the tests need access to actual hardware then they must be turned
> > off during the package build process.
> > (though of course tests for code that needs hardware don't necessarily
> > need hardware too)
> > 
> 
> Is there a codified set of guidelines for what a test can and can't do?
A build time test can do only what a package build process can do, which,
while I don't think this part is codified, certainly cannot rely on even
presence of specific hardware.

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