On Thursday 23 October 2003 11:10, Quel Qun wrote: > On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 20:57, Han Boetes wrote: > > David Kobler wrote: > > > Can't we just set a simple standard to TEST YOUR PACKAGES before > > > uploading > > > > ^^ > > > > > them. It seems that simple things are constantly ignored by those > > > who maintain the cooker RPMS. How hard would it be to test your > > > rpms on a recently installed cooker box before uploading them? > > > > Show us the code :) > > Maintain a few rpms yourself and your talk a lot different. > > Hmmm, I'd bet all (most of) the contrib rpms are at least installed > and run. I can't remember the last time fluxbox never started at all > ;)
kde have been tested, since it was build on the wrong library, so, the problem is not the test. The only way to test it was to install, so the packager installed on his own computer, and gues what, it work, because it seemed to used a new version of qt ( you know to test kde3.2 before uploading it ). so, to me, this is not a big problem, and after all, cooker is meant to be broken. trying to keep things always working will slow down the developpement too much, look at debian testing. > > > This would allow people to test cooker for system specific bugs > > > instead of distribution specific bugs that exist because people > > > do not do BASIC testing. > > > > Nope, you guys are our test subjects. Our labrats. :) > > > > This is the deal. We make packages and you make decent bugreports > > or you learn to live with the fact cooker is broken. > > This is somehow the deal, but the point is valid. There is no way to > find a bug if the program cannot be started at all on any platform. Well, this will be corrected as soon as cooker is unfrozen if you wan a working kde, use the 9.2 rpms, as i do. > Simple test cases, a minimal test plan and a few release procedures > could be automated and should not be so much of a burden once they > are established. It's called investment, and I thought that was what > a commercial company had to do. so, you propose to launch konqueror before uploading and having some automated script to see if it work ? have you sometime to test kde ? > Note: These are just 2� thoughts. I am only sad to see that nothing > changes despite years and years of disappointment. well, i do not see anything to do, so, yes, this is always the same problem, but, we have no easy solution. -- Micka�l Scherer
