On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 01:19:54PM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: > On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 4:02 AM, Dave Reisner <d...@falconindy.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 01:21:36AM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: > >> We currently considering to stop creating release tar balls. > > > > What's the motivation for this change? > > We focus on git, and git only. We do not want to sign tar balls to > distribute, but rely on signed git tags only. > > Pre-building stuff to put into tar balls creates too many > restrictions. It is just plain wrong to pre-build and ship things like > man pages, which depend on common configure options. > > > I suspect that with this, 'make > > distcheck' will never again be run and it will eventually break > > build configurations which don't align with what the CI tests. > > We synced the "make dist" and "git archive" tar balls as much as > possible now. Even the autotools created one will not contain any > pre-built stuff anymore besides the autofoo itself. > > We might continue to run distcheck in the CI, but we don't know > anything for sure at that point in time, only that tar balls are not > part of the release anymore.
To reiterate -- Arch doesn't care about tarballs going away. I'm concerned that 'distcheck' provided some amount of pre-release sanity checking, and I'd prefer that we don't lose that for a project which already lacks a large amount of in-tree test coverage. Everyone involved would benefit from something such as the following: implement the equivalent of the kernels 'make allconfig' and use this for the CI builds, rather than a bare "./configure" (which won't pull in much based on the deps being installed). I realize this can't be 100% of the options since there's conflicting and "legacy" switches (like split-usr). However, you'll at least be giving build system more thorough testing, and decreasing the likelihood that release day is when broken builds are reported on the mailing list. dR _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
