Hi, Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com>:
> On Mon, 9 Mar 2009 22:33:11 +0100 > Christian Faulhammer <fa...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com>: > > > Next, some probably easy but long standing features: > > > > > > * src_test run unless RESTRICTed or explicitly disabled by the > > > user (bug 184812) > > > > A big no. This will lead to many failures on user systems, people > > who run stable will be greatly annoyed. I know this is inspired by > > good intentions, but will not have the desired effect. > > People who run stable won't see test failures, because developers and > arch testers and ~arch users will all have run the tests already and > made sure there aren't any failures. And if there *are* failures that > make it past all three levels of checking before stable, they really > need to be investigated -- chances are they're showing a legitimate > problem. Package A goes stable, test suite passes. Package B (a dependency of A) goes stable in a newer version, which will cause A to not merge in stable profile. This happens all the time and is no special case. V-Li -- Christian Faulhammer, Gentoo Lisp project <URL:http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/>, #gentoo-lisp on FreeNode <URL:http://www.faulhammer.org/>
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