May I file 1000 bugs aka upstream test suite tracking

[Miroslav Lichvar]

On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 02:50:12PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 09:38:56AM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > Personally, I don't think %check is a good idea at all.
> 
> I think the benefit depends on the level of patching the Fedora maintainer
> is doing. If they are shipping just vanilla upstream tar.gz then they can
> have a moderate level of confidence in the functionality of their package
> without tests, since you can assume upstream ran their test before release.

Upstream may not have run the test on all archs supported by Fedora.
ARM is probably still not something we can assume everyone has. I was
dealing with a test which failed only on 32-bit systems just
yesterday, I didn't notice it until I tried building the package in
koji.

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Miroslav Lichvar