Don't put new packages through updates-testing

Patrice Dumas pertusus at free.fr
Sat Jun 2 08:20:17 UTC 2007


On Sat, Jun 02, 2007 at 01:30:16PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> >On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 20:32 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> >>Hans de Goede wrote:
> >>>Not true many reviewers review on the latest stable, it says nowhere 
> >>>that a review should be done on rawhide.
> >>Review is about guidelines and nowhere in the guideline does it even say 
> >>that the fucntionality of the package should be tested. When I suggested 
> >>that it be added I got back a knee jerk reaction to participate in 
> >>reviews myself.
> >>
> >http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/ReviewGuidelines::
> >
> >- SHOULD: The reviewer should test that the package functions as
> >described. A package should not segfault instead of running, for
> >example.
> 
> I suggested that it the "SHOULD" be changed to "MUST". A package that 
> doesnt even start shouldnt be getting past reviews.

For simple applications, sure, but for libs, modules and servers? And for
example when the package consist in multiple commands should them all be
tested?

--
Pat




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