GNOME MRE exception

Clint Byrum clint at ubuntu.com
Wed Jun 13 21:53:49 UTC 2012


Excerpts from Sebastien Bacher's message of 2012-06-13 13:09:34 -0700:
> Le 13/06/2012 21:52, Kees Cook a écrit :
> > What sort of test suites are being run when doing Gnome SRUs?
> Hey Kees,
> 
> There is no solid testing for most of GNOME (glib has a good coverage, 
> GTK a decent one but otherwise the coverage is pretty poor), they have 
> freeze rules on stable series and we review the diff before uploading 
> though. I do think though it does make sense to trust the desktop team 
> when we think that an update is a reasonable one, we tend to be cautious 
> on what we upload, I still appreciate review from the SRU teams for 
> those uploads in any case.

Can we truly consider glib "Gnome"?

I know it comes from the Gnome project, but it has over 3000 reverse
dependencies, and some of these are not at all "gnome". Things like java,
udev, etc.



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