On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Noah Slater <nsla...@apache.org> wrote: > I'm worried about it for two reasons: > > 1) It sets a precedent The test suite forms a "contract" between us and > our users. They expect it to work. If we're prepared to ship software with > failing tests, then what is the point of the tests? > > 2) I was recently contacted by the Homebrew people, and we had a > conversation about tests. Apparently, they rely on "make distcheck", and > when the tests fail, the build fails. They will not be the only downstream > packagers that rely on this functionality. > >
most of the packager are indeed... In the mean time I was looking for a ticket attached to it, can anyone that havve issue with it can open one with the verbose logs eventually? - benoit
