On Sat, Sep 9, 2017 at 9:22 PM, Christopher Hoskin <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> One suggestion: If you update a library, it would be good to test >> whether any r-dep fails to build. There are not many for the case of >> batik. >> > > Is there an automated way to rebuild all of the reverse dependencies > of a package and see a summary of the outcome? libbatik-java has 25 > immediate reverse dependencies which would take a while. It would be > good to leave it running in the background whilst I do something else. > > (Yes I could write a script, but as developers must be updating > libraries all the time, I suspect a well-polished one should already > exist.) >
In fact there isn't. I wrote some Ansible automation for that: https://github.com/ezhukov/testvm Eugene
