Hi James,
On Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 09:41:25PM -0500, James R. Van Zandt wrote:
> Judging from the mailing list archives, there has not been much
> Quality Assurance activity in support of Debian :-) I would like to
Right. It seems nobody currently has enough free time. I would have but
I am organizing the CeBIT fair now :(
> suggest a type of test that is comparably easy to perform: checking
> for bad memory references using electric-fence. Here is the relevant
> part of /usr/share/doc/electric-fence/README.Debian:
Sorry, but this is not what debian-qa is going to do (I hope): There are
enough known bugs. We will have to fix them first before going to hunt
even more bugs.
> My own package autoproject failed, even though it is a shell script.
> I traced the failure to automake, which is a perl script.
> I have therefore filed a bug against perl-5.005-base (#57217).
> No action on that bug, unfortunately.
Hmm, perl sometimes tends to crash but what can you do about it? Ever
tried to read and understand the source?
> I would like to see more of the distribution tested this way. Any
> takers?
Whoever has the time - go ahead. Let's see how much the BTS can take.
Still I would like to concentrate on the known bugs first.
Thanks
Torsten
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Torsten Landschoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Debian Developer and Quality Assurance Committee Member
