On 6 Mar 2008, at 10:21, Alexander Hansen wrote: > Jed Frechette wrote: >> >> Would it help the process at all if people outside the core >> developers >> went through the tracker testing and commenting on packages? >> > Yes it would. The case of "doesn't build on ..." is easy to handle. > However, there are other issues to consider that require more > effort to > address, such as whether a package autodetects and uses libraries that > aren't in its dependency list, which causes it to build > non-deterministically. There are tools available to look at such > issues--but they haven't been declared as "official". >
It would be very helpful if we could get a good list of things to check when validating package submissions. I recently received commit privileges, and have not felt competent to validate package submissions as I wasn't sure of the details of what I should be checking. Once we have a good list of things to check, the next step should be to automate those checks and include them in "fink -- validate", if possible. -- Kevin Horton Ottawa, Canada ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel
