Re: [gentoo-dev] stabilizing libraries without testing reverse deps

2013-10-03 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
On 10/3/13 3:30 PM, Kent Fredric wrote: > Now, if you were to see "no people have successfully built combination X", > that in itself is interesting, even if you don't have actual failure > reports of that combination. > > Also, if "5 testers tested this combination and nothing bad happened" is >

Re: [gentoo-dev] stabilizing libraries without testing reverse deps

2013-10-03 Thread Kent Fredric
On 4 October 2013 05:11, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote: > Even then, no amount of testing guarantees lack of problems. Indeed, but which is a better assurance, "5 testers tested this combination and nothing bad happened", or "5000 people tested this combination and nothing bad happened". Now, if y

Re: [gentoo-dev] stabilizing libraries without testing reverse deps

2013-10-03 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
On 10/1/13 2:12 PM, Kent Fredric wrote: > So if you're relying on the presence of filed bugs to give some sort of > coverage metric, you're going to be out of luck from time to time. For > instance, that fun bug where stabilising a version of libraw broke the > things depending upon it that were al

Re: [gentoo-dev] desktop experience on smartphone: thoughts and plans against Ubuntu edge

2013-10-03 Thread heroxbd
Hey Chris, Chris Reffett writes: > Indeed I have. If you want to start such a project, I would certainly > be interested in joining. Plasma Active is basically untested because > I don't have a mobile device with Gentoo and installing it on a normal > computer leads to display sizing issues, but

Re: [gentoo-dev] desktop experience on smartphone: thoughts and plans against Ubuntu edge

2013-10-03 Thread heroxbd
Hey Alexey, Alexey Mishustin writes: > My rooted Samsung Galaxy S2 is also ready to receive and to test this > kind of Gentoo. Sorry for being slow. I made it finally. Would you like to test it on your favorite Galaxy S2? https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Android/tarball Also, feel f