Re: RFH: testing Rails 6 reverse dependencies
On 2020, മേയ് 9 3:09:54 AM IST, Georg Faerber <georg@debian.org> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>On 20-05-09 00:02:06, Utkarsh Gupta wrote:
>> [...]
>>
>> Please help us in getting Rails 6 to Sid & Bullseye, too :)
>>
>> If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask them here or
>> on IRC.
>
>I'm wondering how the help should look like, in detail.. that is: as far
>as I'm not mistaken, rails 6 is already in experimental. What about
>reducing manual labor involved in this, and leveraging ci.debian.net to
>run tests against all of the involved packages. Of course, this only
>makes sense for packages which ship autopkgtests, and so far I didn't
>check how many of the involved do so, but I would assume lots of them
>do.
>
>Afterwards the results could be "looked on" programmatically, assuming
>packages with passing autopkgtests good to go, leaving only packages
>with failing autopkgtest to look at. And packages without tests,
>additionally.
>
>Thoughts?
Since it is a major rails version, I don't think many gems will have a >= constraint allowing it to accept rails 6, those who do are marked as such in the list. So almost all of them are going to fail (check dependencies test) even if we just need to relax dependencies.
>Cheers,
>Georg
>
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