From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net>
Cc: Guix Devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>, 39637@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Policy to remove broken packages
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2020 14:45:11 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200622184511.GA22400@jasmine.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k0zz6ndn.fsf@cbaines.net>
On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 06:06:44PM +0100, Christopher Baines wrote:
> It seems like you got further in understanding this than I did. Given
> that this seems like a test failure, and I don't think there's anything
> to suggest that the actual functionality doesn't work, the course of
> action I see here is to disable either the failing tests, or running the
> test suite entirely.
Not having looked into it closely, I think that, in general, test
failures do indicate that actual functionality is broken. Of course it's
a different story in many cases since the Guix build environment is so
unusual.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-22 18:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-19 23:58 Policy to remove broken packages zimoun
2020-06-20 10:24 ` Christopher Baines
2020-06-20 10:37 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-06-22 15:14 ` Jack Hill
2020-06-22 17:06 ` Christopher Baines
2020-06-22 18:45 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
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