On 09/30/2013 11:44 AM, hasufell wrote:
> On 09/30/2013 09:22 AM, Markos Chandras wrote:
>> On 09/29/2013 10:41 PM, hasufell wrote:
>>> Arch teams do not test them, so this is the business of the
>>> maintainer or the dev who requested stabilization.
>>>
> 
>> That is definitely not true. We always trained Arch Testers to
>> test reverse dependencies as well.
> 
> 
> Then something is wrong:
> 
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=464536
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=470554
> 
> for the first bug:
> net-libs/ortp media-libs/mediastreamer and net-voip/linphone
> are from the same upstream and actually have to be bumped and
> stabilized TOGETHER, because it is very likely that they break
> otherwise. And that's exactly what happened. The maintainer was
> probably aware of it, but didn't respond, so arch testers went ahead
> and did not test reverse deps.
> 
The fact that an AT may or may not do his job properly does not mean
that we should delegate the problem to the maintainer. I am not saying
that the maintainer should not test his packages. But when it comes to
stabilizations it's the job of ATs and Arch developers to decide what
does and what doesn't belong to the stable tree.

-- 
Regards,
Markos Chandras - Gentoo Linux Developer
http://dev.gentoo.org/~hwoarang

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