Re: Testing of auto-built packages
On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 10:18:54PM +1000, Berin Lautenbach wrote:
> Peoples,
>
> I have been looking at a bug in a library that only appears to be
> occuring on the PPC platform. This is something I don't have, but the
> autobuilders are taking the source upload of the package in question
> (Xalan), getting a successful build, and pushing the .debs into unstable.
>
> Which is great, but it means that the package hits unstable with a bug
> that would be obvious with even a trivial test.
I think that's more common than you might think. very few sound packages in
Debian actually work on big-endian systems because they often simply read the
WAV header into a in-memory structure.
--
patrick
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