Eli Bendersky added the comment: On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 6:28 AM, R. David Murray <rep...@bugs.python.org>wrote:
> > R. David Murray added the comment: > > We don't generally backport tests unless they are part of a bug fix. It's > not a blanket prohibition, but normally the risk of false positives in a > maintenance release on platforms not covered by our buildbots outweighs the > benefits of adding the tests. > These tests are very related to an actual bug-fix ( http://bugs.python.org/issue18849). Moreover, they cover a previously uncovered feature which resulted in very intermittent heisen-bugs where temp file creation was occasionally failing on some platforms. IMHO having this covered is worth the small maintenance burden of the tests - who knows, it may uncover real problems. What do you think? ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue18945> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
