[Fedora-packaging] May I file 1000 bugs aka upstream test suite tracking

Tom Hughes tom at compton.nu
Fri Feb 21 14:58:28 UTC 2014


On 21/02/14 14:57, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 02:53:55PM +0000, Tom Hughes wrote:
>> On 21/02/14 14:51, Alexander Todorov wrote:
>>
>>> I want to track which packages *DO NOT* have any tests and later be able
>>> to focus on creating them (be it working with volunteers, GSoC
>>> participants or whoever is willing to step up to this task).
>>
>> Why would you file a bug in the Fedora bug tracker when the package
>> has no test suite upstream? That makes no sense - if the upstream
>> package has no tests then the bug belongs upstream not in Fedora.
>
> I don't believe that is what he is proposing. I read it as meaning
> filing bugs where upstream *does* have a test suite, but the RPM
> specfile has not enabled it in %check.

That was what I thought he really meant originally, and that was what 
the wiki page suggested, but it doesn't seem to be what he is saying in 
the message I quoted.

Tom

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