On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 07:47:54PM +1100, Martin Pool wrote: > We have just done our second bugfix release for the 2.2 series, which > shipped in Maverick[0], and requested an SRU for it as part of > <http://pad.lv/659590>. > > The good news, with regard to our SRU MRE conditions, is that the test > suite now passes cleanly when run both during a build, and when run > from an installed package. We've checked this for the specific source > packaged in 2.2.2. > > However, the bad news is that we can't really meet this MRE condition > for Maverick. To run its test suite, bzr needs the "python-testtools" > package[1], which is packaged in Universe while bzr itself is in > main[2]. This hasn't been a problem before because every other > command works without it, and attempting to run the tests just asks > you to install testtools. I personally can't see any way to unlock > this: I presume we can't promote python-testtools into main in an SRU. > > It would be pretty disappointing to stall bzr SRUs after what we've > done towards enabling them. > > It seems to me the best course is: > > * grandfather the 2.2 series SRUs by running their tests in a > separate build, and manually after installation of the package
OK, let's go ahead with this option, IMO. +1. -- Colin Watson [[email protected]] -- technical-board mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/technical-board
