On 05/17/2012 01:27 PM, Evan Broder wrote: > As part of trying to do a slightly better job of handling security and > stable updates, I'd like to propose reducing our testing requirements > for those backports. > > Proposal: For stable and security updates of backported packages which > are not new upstream versions, it is not necessary to test reverse > dependencies. The only testing required is builds/installs/runs of the > package itself. > > Objections to making this official backports policy? > > - Evan > I would prefer testing of a subset of the reverse dependencies (preferably the popular dependencies if any exist). While the backport itself might not be an issue, there might have been changes in the destination series which might have broken something. Having said that, perhaps if we have stuff with good test suite coverage, we could rely on those. Micah
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