Greg Schafer wrote these words on 02/16/07 02:50 CST: > Wouldn't it be wise to document the fact that the test failure is > expected? (They purposely changed the program's behavior but failed to > adjust the test suite). I'm not sure if there is a current BLFS policy for > failing test suites.
There is no "policy", but I've always tried to annotate known failures, simply as a heads-up for builders. Many of our packages have known breakages in the test suite and many of them are documented, some are not. -- Randy rmlscsi: [bogomips 1003.26] [GNU ld version 2.16.1] [gcc (GCC) 4.0.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.6] [Linux 2.6.14.3 i686] 08:00:00 up 37 days, 8:14, 1 user, load average: 0.08, 0.05, 0.01 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
