On 5/9/2005 13:41:54, Jason Stubbs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Monday 05 September 2005 20:21, Simon Stelling wrote: > > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > > If it isn't fit to be marked stable, it shouldn't be out of > > > package.mask. ~arch means "candidate for going stable after more > > > testing", not "might work". > > > > It's a bit of both. When you put a package into ~arch, it's in > > "testing", so that says it needs further "testing" since there still > > could be a not yet discovered bug, right? > > Testing of the ebuild rather than of the package, though. This is the > point where people sometimes get confused.
That'd be me then :) So we're talking about correctness of ebuilds (correct dependencies, use flag logic etc) and not whether the package actually works in depth. The latter is what caused me to suggest drawing together a large team of user-testers managed by arch-team devs. Correctness of ebuilds takes us back to a dev role and the ebuild quiz, since it's necessary to understand ebuilds to criticise them. Kev. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
