Micro release Exception for Nova, Swift, Glance, and Keystone

[Chuck Short]

Hi Kees,

On Mon, 12 Dec 2011 14:02:28 -0800
Kees Cook <kees at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> Hi Chuck,
> 
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 09:52:13AM -0500, Chuck Short wrote:
> > I humbly ask for a on-going micro release exception for the
> > openstack packages (nova, swift, glance, dashboard, quantum, and
> > keystone) for oneiric and for future releases. 
> 
> Have SRUs happened for these already? Traditionally, it's better to
> have a few successful SRUs go by first before attempting an SRU MRE.
> 

No however there has been security updates for Nova already.

> > * regression tests are enabled in the package's build
> > 
> >   Running the test suite has always been ran when the packages are
> >   built, an example is the following:
> >   
> >   https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nova/2011.3-0ubuntu6/+build/2826798he
> 
> This is good; that gives me warm fuzzies. :) That's a lot of tests.
> Have you confirmed that failing a test will FTBFS the package?
> 


In the past yes it has, but due to the pep8 tests currently failing on
the release version of Diablo for nova, the package wont FTBFS if the
testsuite has failed.

chuck

> Thanks!
> 
> -Kees
>