From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>
Cc: Guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Package test service for GNU maintainers
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 23:07:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wqa49ojm.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140819060439.GA11093@jocasta.intra> (John Darrington's message of "Tue, 19 Aug 2014 08:04:40 +0200")
John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au> skribis:
> I could give it a go.
Cool!
> 2. By default, guix does not check that out-of-source builds are functional.
> "make distcheck" on the other-hand does. Do we want to duplicate the function
> of "make distcheck"? Perhaps we do, since I have recently seen a rather bad
> GNU release where it obviously wasn't run.
That’s not the goal here. The goal would just be to make sure that the
package can be integrated in the distro.
> 3. Should we check too that a package behaves sanely when cross-compiling?
Perhaps, yes.
> 4. Some years ago, somebody knocked up a similar "GNU package linter" and ran
> it on all GNU packages. One maintainer got very shitty about a "deficiency"
> that was detected - started demanding an apology, blah, blah blah ...
Was it the CI service at hydra.nixos.org that Rob Vermaas and I got
started? :-)
I think here we’re aiming for something much more focused, which is
integration of (pre)releases in the distro.
Ludo’.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-20 8:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-17 14:53 Package test service for GNU maintainers Ludovic Courtès
2014-08-18 21:46 ` Jason Self
2014-08-19 21:04 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-08-19 6:04 ` John Darrington
2014-08-19 12:25 ` Jason Self
2014-08-19 21:07 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
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