On Tuesday 12 April 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Hello Stefano, > > * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 03:26:33PM CEST: > > I've pushed the attached patch to yacc-work. The new testcase > > should correctly capture and expose the regression, as it passes > > with automake 1.11 and fails with developement (maint, master > > and yacc-work) versions of automake. > > Thanks for all your testing work. However, I think it is not ideal if > we add tests for regressions on branches other than where the > regressions occurred. When we fix the regression, we want the test in > place right where the fix is needed, i.e., ideally on a new branch off > of the offending commit just like we'd do with a fix. > You're absolutely right of course. I've now created a temporary branch `expose-bug-8485' off of the offending commit (v1.11-328-ge87c030 "Create subdirs for generated sources even when not dep tracking"), cherry-picked the commit introducing the new testcase (v1.11-362-g7ad822a "coverage: test for automake bug#8485 (known regression)"), merged it back into maint, merged maint into master, and pushed.
Sorry for the noise, Stefano
