On Sat, 31 May 2014 19:50:20 +0200 ""Paweł Hajdan, Jr."" <phajdan...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 5/29/14, 12:46 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > > In general it has always worked well after a compile; but, there's > > every now and then one or another annoying regression, like recent > > Chromium had some font issues or some random tabs crash some > > versions ago and ... > > > > If a test catches one of these, you can immediately report the > > problem; if it is left untested, you'll have to do a debugging > > adventure instead. > > This is one of my points: I don't remember a single chromium bug filed > in Gentoo that would be caught by a test or that a failing test > actually detected. Your point covers the lack of tests, or tests that are non-fatal; however, it doesn't cover tests that are fatal, what if they fail? > By the way, I don't remember seeing many reports about font issues or > tab crashes. Please make sure to file them when they occur, or just > point me to them in case I somehow missed them. They usually go straight to upstream, though I've managed to somehow fix it up; as for Gentoo, some people create forum threads about them. (One was due to a library compiled with a less common flag, the other due to fontconfig being a regression magnet; both fun to debug, the former a test wolud've caught, the latter is due to the lack thereof) > > While I don't run tests myself; the need for them is clear, for > > those that aim for more production ready systems (eg. university > > network PCs). > > This seems too theoretical to me. I'd be fine with someone > volunteering to maintain chromium's src_test in Gentoo. Unless we > have such a person though, it seems to mostly take valuable focus > away from bugs that definitely *do* affect our users, for no provable > benefit for Gentoo. What about provable benefit for upstream? Does upstream /dev/null them? -- With kind regards, Tom Wijsman (TomWij) Gentoo Developer E-mail address : tom...@gentoo.org GPG Public Key : 6D34E57D GPG Fingerprint : C165 AF18 AB4C 400B C3D2 ABF0 95B2 1FCD 6D34 E57D
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