Kevin Horton wrote: > On 6 Mar 2008, at 10:21, Alexander Hansen wrote: > >> Jed Frechette wrote: >>> >>> Would it help the process at all if people outside the core developers >>> went through the tracker testing and commenting on packages? >>> >> Yes it would. The case of "doesn't build on ..." is easy to handle. >> However, there are other issues to consider that require more effort to >> address, such as whether a package autodetects and uses libraries that >> aren't in its dependency list, which causes it to build >> non-deterministically. There are tools available to look at such >> issues--but they haven't been declared as "official". >> > > It would be very helpful if we could get a good list of things to > check when validating package submissions. I recently received commit > privileges, and have not felt competent to validate package > submissions as I wasn't sure of the details of what I should be > checking. Once we have a good list of things to check, the next step > should be to automate those checks and include them in "fink > --validate", if possible. > > -- > Kevin Horton > Ottawa, Canada > > I've been meaning to do that, but life keeps intruding. Since I'm not going to have TV and network for a little longer, I may be able to whip something up this weekend. :-)
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