Rethinking proventester and critpath

[Adam Williamson]

On Tue, 2011-11-22 at 17:04 +0100, Nils Philippsen wrote:

> (picking this example because it affects me), I don't think that logging
> in should fail because of problems the scanner library may have. Or

Well, you'd think so, but reality frequently offends. ;)

There is, for instance, a bug in Fedora 16 which results in GNOME
failing to start if colord can't read a color profile in the user's home
directory due to it being incorrectly SELinux-labelled.

You might think this comes down to idiotic coding on the part of the
GNOME team, but actually it turns out to be rather more complex than
that. I'm too dumb to recap it accurately, but essentially, it's not
something that can actually be very easily fixed, though you'd think
it'd be easy to make sure the entirety of GNOME doesn't fall over
because of such a trivial sub-function, it actually isn't.

The general statement of this is 'it is sometimes the case that things
you'd never imagine could possibly break really critical functions, do
break really critical functions'.
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