Timothy Sample <samplet@ngyro.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Robert Vollmert <rob@vllmrt.net> writes:
>
>> On 8. Aug 2019, at 15:12, Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> wrote:
>>> I have one comment about the series: we've disabled tests on some
>>> packages that have been broken "forever" on i686.  It would be better to
>>> do so selectively on just the affected architectures.  I.e.:
>>> 
>>> #:tests? (if (string-prefix? "i686" (%current-system))
>>>              #f
>>>              #t)
>>> 
>>> Preferably with a comment about why they need to be disabled.  That way,
>>> we will still notice when something breaks on other architectures.  Can
>>> you try it Rob?
>>
>> I don’t intend to, because I think the effort is better spent elsewhere.
>> But do make the change if you like!
>>
>> The rough plan from my point of view would be to aim for an upgrade of
>> the haskell packages to build with ghc-8.6 from a recent stackage LTS
>> set, and reevaluate skipped tests across the set while doing that or
>> once that’s done.
>
> This was in the back of my mind, too.  Stackage LTS 14.0 (built on top
> of GHC 8.6.5) was released three days ago.  Upgrading will involve
> sweeping changes to the whole set of Haskell packages, giving us lots of
> opportunities to revisit these failing tests.  If we still have problems
> with the i686 tests, we can make them conditional then.
>
> Thanks for pointing this out though, Marius.  I had thought about making
> them conditional when reviewing, but I second guessed myself because we
> have a lot of packages with comments like “tests fail on architecture X”
> followed by an absolute “#:tests? #f”.  If this comes up in the future,
> I’ll just go ahead and make the tests conditional.

OK.  Thanks to both of you for clarifying :-)