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Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 23:20:03 +0100
From: Christian Faulhammer <fauli@gentoo.org>
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Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Ideas for a (fast) EAPI=3
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Hi,

Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com>:

> On Mon, 9 Mar 2009 22:33:11 +0100
> Christian Faulhammer <fauli@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com>:
> > > Next, some probably easy but long standing features:
> > >=20
> > > * src_test run unless RESTRICTed or explicitly disabled by the
> > > user (bug 184812)
> >=20
> >  A big no.  This will lead to many failures on user systems, people
> > who run stable will be greatly annoyed.  I know this is inspired by
> > good intentions, but will not have the desired effect.
>=20
> People who run stable won't see test failures, because developers and
> arch testers and ~arch users will all have run the tests already and
> made sure there aren't any failures. And if there *are* failures that
> make it past all three levels of checking before stable, they really
> need to be investigated -- chances are they're showing a legitimate
> problem.

 Package A goes stable, test suite passes.  Package B (a dependency of
A) goes stable in a newer version, which will cause A to not merge in
stable profile.  This happens all the time and is no special case.

V-Li

--=20
Christian Faulhammer, Gentoo Lisp project
<URL:http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/>, #gentoo-lisp on FreeNode

<URL:http://www.faulhammer.org/>

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