182 pending F11 stable updates. WTF?

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Sun May 10 21:04:23 UTC 2009


Jussi Lehtola wrote:
> Why not? The purpose of testing is to find out if the package breaks
> something. In the case of a new package there is no functionality of it
> to break; the only possibility of getting into trouble is if the package
> itself hasn't been made correctly (clashing file names or so on), which
> should be in any case picked up in the review.

But you still risk pushing out a completely broken new package, which
doesn't reflect well on you. ;-)

One of the ways this can happen is if you inadvertently built your new
package against a buildroot override which is not in stable yet. Or of
course the package itself could be broken.

        Kevin Kofler




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