On Wed, Nov 03, 2021 at 12:01:53PM -0400, Dan Streetman wrote: > On Sat, Oct 30, 2021 at 3:57 PM Mattia Rizzolo <[email protected]> wrote: > > * In the testing point, I dropped this: > > This testing should cover as much of the package functionality as > > possible, not just any missing functionality or feature that you > > are requesting the backport for. > > The reason being that doing that it's a *huge* burden. It totally > > doesn't feel so while writing, and it could even be considered the > > proper thing to do. But I'm sure not even us 3 would ever bother > > doing that. Imagine having to test every single devscripts and > > ubuntu-dev-tools script for all releases I'm going to backport the > > package in. Or having to test as many entry points of a library > > package. That's just not going to happen, so let's not lie on the > > process page either. > > +1, I totally agree there are some processes with "requirements" that > are effectively ignored most of the time - and you're right that > testing *everything* in a backported package is unreasonable and > unlikely. So any manual testing would likely be up to the backport > requestor, to verify their specific need and/or whatever cursory > manual tests they want to run.
Good.
> We should state that any existing automated tests should be run
> though, right? Specifically, any build-time tests, and any
> autopkgtests?
Alright.
Added:
* In particular, make sure to run any build-time tests and autopkgtests
**before** uploading.
> > * "and/or if you are unfamiliar with preparing packages for upload" -
> > I'm not dropping that, but honestly, if we have such people in our
> > ACLs I'd feel much more comfortable if we had their rights revoked…
>
> +1 yep, no need for that added text - anyone with ACL absolutely
> should know how to prepare things.
Heh, dropped, thank you :P
> > * I added that "special cases" section I already sent to this ML earlier
> > in the month.
>
> +1 for this, however I'd suggest we use a term other than 'blacklist';
> maybe 'denylist' or 'disallowed'
Despite being mildly bothered by all this wave of politically
corectness, whatever. I replcaed it with "forbidden" stuff.
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