Hi, Alexis Ballier <aball...@gentoo.org>: > > 4) Nobody knows how work all packages in tree, so there are obvious > > packages like a browsers, IM, audio player,that is easy decide if is > > ok or not, but there are also packages that an Arch tester has never > > seen, so is a lack of time everytime google about it or ask to > > maintainer, so, please specify what test you want for this package; > > e.g. -only compile test > > -compile test and make sure src_test goes well > > -make sure /usr/bin/${foo} works properly in ${that} manner > > -see 5) about library > > > > So, you can write one time 'how to' and copy/paste for the future > > stablereq; I guess I'm not asking a long and difficult task. > > what i dislike in this approach is that arch testers will follow a > test plan which the maintainer has obviously tested before and knows > it works. > sending people into the jungle of 'try to do something with $pkg' may > make them encounter problems the maintainer hadnt thought about.
To stick with the Emacs example: We barely use all those packages we maintain. So sometimes we do not even execute this documented test plan ourselves. Of course it only contains a small subset of everything, but some test plans contain a "fool around with the program" and it is better than nothing. V-Li -- Christian Faulhammer, Gentoo Lisp project <URL:http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/>, #gentoo-lisp on FreeNode <URL:http://gentoo.faulhammer.org/>
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