From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Vincent Legoll Subject: Re: automake-1.16.2 Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2020 17:04:12 +0100 Message-ID: References: <878sjn9pm5.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:58540) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jHUze-0001q5-SN for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Mar 2020 12:04:31 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jHUzc-00078X-S2 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Mar 2020 12:04:30 -0400 In-Reply-To: <878sjn9pm5.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: =?UTF-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: guix-devel On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 3:07 PM Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote: > > Trying to update automake to the latest, I'm seeing lots > > of skipped tests because of missing native-inputs, would > > it be OK toadd those to enable more tests to be run ? > > I hadn=E2=80=99t seen your message and added Automake 1.16.2 in commit > 72a5cc53586080e75ae4ee80f3a2467ff30c4f5e. No problem, I've seen you added that. > We=E2=80=99d probably have to decide on a case by case basis which additi= onal > dependencies we=E2=80=99d like to add, given that Automake has a lot of > dependents. For the tests they will be native-inputs, so only increase dependencies for building, is that a problem ? I would have thought that test coverage is more important (especially on such important packages), I'm probably missing something... -- Vincent Legoll