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

2013-10-01 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
On 10/1/13 7:13 AM, Jeroen Roovers wrote: > On Mon, 30 Sep 2013 08:14:29 +0200 > Agostino Sarubbo wrote: >> What do you think? > I think that when you set out to help every minor architecture get > stable, you didn't know what you were getting into. +1 I think it's great to see your work there,

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

2013-10-01 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Mon, 30 Sep 2013 08:14:29 +0200 Agostino Sarubbo wrote: > These type of failures are _not_ architecture dependant. This is wrong. Libraries behave differently on different architectures because the compiled code is actually different. Different architectures use different ways to access and

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

2013-09-30 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
On 9/29/13 11:14 PM, Agostino Sarubbo wrote: > If you look at the policy, it says to test few rdeps. And I think this is right. If you'd like things to be done in a different way, discussing them is OK, but "unilaterally" just skipping that is not OK. > The arch tester is in charge to test the pa

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

2013-09-29 Thread Agostino Sarubbo
This is a delicate point. If you look at the policy, it says to test few rdeps. The arch tester is in charge to test the packages on his architecture. These type of failures are _not_ architecture dependant. So, instead of have 10 ATs that are testing the same rdeps, seems logic that the main