Re: Automatically testing package updates

[Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>]

Hi,

On Mon, 02 Dec 2024 at 14:44, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:

> This manifest is just an example.  We could come up with manifests
> targeting package collections like CRAN packages, astronomy packages,
> and so on.

Let consider that a “leaf” package is a package that does not appear
elsewhere in any other packages.  Then, if there is no mistake, I count
14143 leaf packages over 32459 all packages.

Well, if we filter using gnu-build-system and cmake-build-system then it
reduces to 2847 packages.

These packages are “safe” to automatically update because the only
annoyance will be users at run time. ;-)

Somehow, the loop and type conversion are not optimized but maybe this
kind of “leaf” packages could defined and then filtered build-system per
build-system, i.e., team per team.

WDYT?

Cheers,
simon