Don't put new packages through updates-testing

Michael Schwendt mschwendt.tmp0701.nospam at arcor.de
Sat Jun 2 09:25:28 UTC 2007


On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 14:17:40 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:

> The base functionality must still be tested.

That is much too vague.

> A application that 
> segfaults on startup should never get pass review.

It's "should" here again.

The app may work fine in the reviewers environment, but malfunction in a
different environment. For the reviewer it's called "best effort". The
reviewer is encouraged to perform at least some tests. But to define what
_must_ be tested and how to create a protocol for reproducibility and
accountability, is the fundamental problem.




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