A couple of rants about Launchpad

[David Gerard]

2009/3/9 Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com>:
> 2009/3/9 Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com>:

>> Over time we have been cranking up the amount of automatic testing we do
>> of this kind of thing. I think it nowadays involves some tentacled
>> madness that installs a random selection of packages on each iteration
>> and then complains if the upgrade breaks ...

> My suggestion, to try to reproduce the sort of problems I've seen, would be :
>  - get some idea of the most popular packages /not/ included in the
> repositories but commonly added by users (perhaps by a poll on the
> website/forums/mailing lists) - e.g., for 8.10, OpenOffice 3.0,
> Thunderbird, Songbird, the non-open-source edition of VirtualBox (to
> name some I use) & how people install them (e.g. from a DEB from
> getdeb.net, from source, from a tarball, etc.)


Does popcon take care of this, or does it just measure stuff from the
official repositories?


>  - additionally, possibly, that noted screwer-over of Ubuntu,
> Automatix and its successors


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> - and perhaps a random /removal/ of packages, for things with popular
> alternatives - perhaps removing Firefox in favour of
> Epiphany/Seamonkey/Opera/Konqueror, or removing Pidgin in favour of
> Empathy, or removing Evolution in favour of Thunderbird/mutt/Opera
> M2/whatever
> And add those as test cases.


- d.