Packages with missing %check

[Matthias Clasen]

On Wed, 2014-02-26 at 16:58 +0100, Miloslav Trmač wrote:
> 2014-02-26 14:11 GMT+01:00 Colin Walters <walters at verbum.org>:

>         The *very first* test I run is "does the OS still boot"?
>         That's called "smoketest" for me, and it only takes a few
>         minutes.
> 
> 
> That seems to be optimizing for bugs that break the boot, when bugs
> that occur in less-frequently used parts of the system are far more
> common; a lot of software is not used, or not critical, in the boot
> path.

It is optimizing for answering the most important question first, which
is: Can I tag this build / push this to the thousands of developers and
testers which be blocked from testing the less-frequently used parts of
the system if their system doesn't boot anymore after the upgrade.