Package maintainers -- want test results by mail?

seth vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Wed Jun 2 16:24:54 UTC 2010


On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 08:54 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 08:36 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I think the goal is, of course, to reduce the noise out and focus on
> > making sure the packagers know about the truly broken. :)
> > 
> 
> Another useful goal might be to only emit errors/warnings for which we
> can accompany the message with a link to the section in the packaging
> guidelines that explains how to avoid the problem.


sure. I think there are a number of things which are "wrong" but not
obviously a specific rule.

For example: Your package seems to have grown by 1.5GB.

or

Hmm - you had 300 provides in the last package, this one has 25000.

that seems _wrong_ but not clearly against any rule. :)


-sv.



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