Don't put new packages through updates-testing
Horst H. von Brand
vonbrand at inf.utfsm.cl
Sun Jun 3 23:40:40 UTC 2007
Denis Leroy <denis at poolshark.org> wrote:
[...]
> The things to stress are code coverage, basic functionality, and
> especially: anything that interacts with the OS/dekstop such as
> - opening/saving file
> - printing
> - anything that hooks with some Gnome (or KDE) services (keyrings,
> search, proxy settings, ...)
> - config files. are they saved in the right place, and reloaded
> correctly ?
Right. A set of (regression) tests for the package. Hopefully maintained
upstream (setting this up and keeping it up to date is a /huge/ amount of
work!), perhaps supplemented by some local tests by the packager.
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