On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > Well, I think that is worth trying. Please go ahead and put something in > experimental and see what happens.
It's been noted that an upload to experimental will close bugs mentioned in the changelog. I'm not certain if I agree with this, but it's enough to make me upload to people.d.o instead. > There is no test suite per-say, but through all the configuration stuff > you can create isolated test environments. Apt is actually easier to test because of this, than dpkg. > > Do you have more information about these problems? Do you have a way to > > duplicate them? > > Thomas's problem package file is one, last time I tried it though it > didn't happen here. The new gettext i18n stuff is also pretty screwed up, > the translation files are very old. The po directory apparently doesn't > build on SMP either because of a bad assumption I made, the make-hackary > to fix that is unfortunately rather involved though. Yeah, I saw this smp/po error myself. Since I'm the one that modified apt to compile with -j anyways, it shouldn't be hard to fix. As for Thomas' problem, is he listening? Could you clue the rest of us in into how to duplicate it? I suppose we should handle the translations like we do in dpkg. Before major uploads, ping this list(and the maintainers listed in each file), for updates.
