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

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 02/21/2014 05:43 PM, Nikos Roussos wrote:
> On February 21, 2014 4:51:52 PM EET, Alexander Todorov <atodorov at redhat.com> wrote:
>> На 21.02.2014 16:27, Richard W.M. Jones написа:
>>> Is it correct that you're only going to be filing bugs when upstream
>>> tarballs already contain test suites, but they are just not enabled
>> in
>>> the Fedora package?
>>
>> Hi Richard,
>> I meant just the opposite. However I will also do what you suggest but
>> this will
>> result in far less number of bugs (probably around 100).
>>
>> 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).
>
> And what happens if you create a testing suite for a project but the upstream is unwilling to integrate?
> It seems that it would make more sense to do it in cooperation with upstream, thus filing the bug there.
Exactly. However most upstreams who are confronted with bugs telling 
them "Your package is lacking a testsuite, please add one", without 
being presented a concrete proposaly will simply close this bug and 
consider the submitter to be troll.


Ralf