On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 10:17:01PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > 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.
And note that the point says _sufficient_ testing. If the change is just a
rebuild with bumped version number, sufficient testing may simply mean
verifying that nothing _actually_ changed.
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Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)mattdm.org>
Senior Systems Architect -- Instructional & Research Computing Services
Computing & Information Technology
Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences