You overestimate organizational level of nixpkgs maintenance. 

Ideally, every update should be built and tested separately on all supported 
platforms. Well, it doesn't happen - and no infrastructure is in place for 
detailed testing. 

Most version updates are done like "nix-prefeth-url" + build - on contributor's 
computer. If that succeeds, upstream update is considered sane and it is 
committed (and possibly built on buildfarm). 

Now we see that the buildfarm build is the first multiplatform evaluation of 
the package (and maybe it is good to run "make check" in that moment). But 
suggesting that this build is tracked and "make check" is removed right after 
it succeeds (if it succeeds at all) is somewhat optimistic..
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