Proposed udpates policy change

[Matthew Garrett]

On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 10:09:25PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 09:59:29PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > We assume the following axioms:
> [..]
> > 2) It is impossible to ensure that functionality will not be reduced 
> > without sufficient testing.
> 
> Your axioms are obviously wrong.  An update which simply bumped a
> release number would have the same functionality.  Since you claim
> these are axioms -- self-evident truths that form the basis for
> further argument, anything else you wrote is unsound.  Sorry :-!

What guards you against changes in the buildroot, non-deterministic 
compiler bugs, cosmic rays and the like? The point is to test the 
binaries that are being pushed into the hands of the users.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org