Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 03/03/06 10:40 CST: > I don't think it is unreasonable to assume the developers > have run all the tests with all the proper prerequisites in place before > releasing a stable package.
Not trying to totally disagree with Bruce's take, I'd like to present a different point of view. There would be some who disagree about expecting developers to have run all the tests with all the proper prerequisites in place. *Many* times this is impossible. Package Foo depends on package Bar. Package Foo's test suite does many things to check proper operation with package Bar. Now, package Bar releases a new version with some subtle differences. Is it reasonable to expect the developer of package Foo to have tested this combination? No it is not, in fact it is impossible until the developer of package Foo releases an updated version. Understand, I'm not arguing that we should try to make *every* single test suite run successfully, I'm just trying to present a point of view that it is not reasonable to expect developers to to the amount of testing that Bruce suggests. -- Randy rmlscsi: [GNU ld version 2.15.94.0.2 20041220] [gcc (GCC) 3.4.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.4] [Linux 2.6.10 i686] 10:45:00 up 17 days, 18:54, 3 users, load average: 0.24, 0.07, 0.15 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
