[gentoo-dev] Re: Stabilisation procedure

2016-11-19 Thread Michael Palimaka
On 19/11/16 19:04, Michał Górny wrote: > Could we maybe include some place (metadata.xml?) to state what is > the best way to test a package? I'm thinking it could include things > like: > > - whether the test of the package are reliable, > > - whether runtime testing is required and what kind of

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Stabilisation procedure

2016-11-19 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 11/17/2016 01:07 PM, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 03:05:41PM +0100, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: >>> Isn't it implied that any stabilisation is approved by the maintainer? >>> Has it ever been acceptable to go around stabilising random packages? >>> >> >> Explicit > Implicit

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilisation procedure

2016-11-19 Thread James Le Cuirot
On Sat, 19 Nov 2016 09:04:01 +0100 Michał Górny wrote: > Could we maybe include some place (metadata.xml?) to state what is > the best way to test a package? I'm thinking it could include things > like: > > - whether the test of the package are reliable, Shouldn't you set RESTRICT="test" if the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilisation procedure

2016-11-19 Thread Michał Górny
On Thu, 17 Nov 2016 18:16:27 +1100 Michael Palimaka wrote: > Runtime testing > > Consider the level of runtime testing that is required for the target > package. Remember, the focus of stabilisation is to integrate a testing > ebuild into the stable tree and not to identify routine bug