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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