On su, 2011-02-13 at 08:41 +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 12/02/11 at 15:29 -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote: > > Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > > > > > If we wanted to be serious about this, it would be nice for someone to > > > set up a maximal build chroot: something with as many packages installed > > > as possible. Then do test builds of all packages, and report problems. > > > (Then upgrade the chroot, install as many new packages as possible, and > > > rebuild everything. Repeat forever.) > > > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/01/msg00869.html > > As Raphael pointed out, I did some work on this in the past. But I > consider it mostly a waste of time, since the benefits are very little. > > Also, there are many areas where automated testing is interesting / > useful, but where we don't do everything we could yet, like the use of > test suites, or installation/upgrades testing in setups that are more > complex than piuparts'. I would rather see someone work on this.
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