* Marijn Schouten (hkBst) (hk...@gentoo.org) wrote: > James Rowe wrote: > > Package tests will have been run a -- possibly large -- number of > > times when users see them if they are rolled in to the EAPI bump. This > > isn't like the current situation of enabling tests and hoping somebody > > has run them during testing. > > You conclusion that developers do not run tests is based on nothing. Using > RESTRICT=test is not a fix and just hides the problem, so it is not > unthinkable > that packages with failing tests get to stable.
Well, I didn't suggest using RESTRICT=test so I'm not sure I understand your point. That being said while it definitely isn't a good result that packages with failing tests have RESTRICT=test set those packages aren't going to cause test failures for stable users anyway. Thanks, James 1. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85901
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