John Darrington <j...@darrington.wattle.id.au> skribis: > I could give it a go.
Cool! > 2. By default, guix does not check that out-of-source builds are functional. > "make distcheck" on the other-hand does. Do we want to duplicate the > function > of "make distcheck"? Perhaps we do, since I have recently seen a rather > bad > GNU release where it obviously wasn't run. That’s not the goal here. The goal would just be to make sure that the package can be integrated in the distro. > 3. Should we check too that a package behaves sanely when cross-compiling? Perhaps, yes. > 4. Some years ago, somebody knocked up a similar "GNU package linter" and ran > it on all GNU packages. One maintainer got very shitty about a > "deficiency" > that was detected - started demanding an apology, blah, blah blah ... Was it the CI service at hydra.nixos.org that Rob Vermaas and I got started? :-) I think here we’re aiming for something much more focused, which is integration of (pre)releases in the distro. Ludo’.
