branches for platform one canot test on

[Paul Howarth]

Paul W. Frields wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 11:01 +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> 
>>Is there a policy about doiong branches for packages one cannot test?
>>For example I don't have a FC-3 to test a package I just added to cvs 
>>(pam_ssh if you want to know) but I can't see why it shouldn't work, once
>>it builds. Should I request the branch?
> 
> 
> This may be a dumb question/response, but isn't mock made to handle this
> scenario?  My understanding is that it builds a chroot environment
> (/var/lib/mock/[branch-arch]) and builds your package there, so even if
> you don't run Rawhide, for example, you can test a build on it.  This
> might make a good addition to the Wiki for us new Extras packagers.

That's good for testing that builds work, but doesn't help with testing 
that the resulting packages actually work.

Paul.