Testing Backports

[John Dong]

Ok, thanks for clarifying that. Sometimes, certain areas of breakage are 
difficult to test by us, mainly because we don't use the program. If 
someone, for example, asks me for a Blender backport, I can build and run 
it, but that's about as far as I know how to use blender! If a certain 
aspect of animation causes a segfault, damned if I knew!

So, we (backports team) need to think of a good way to get a beta testing 
group together. Perhaps this would mean a "hoary-backports-staging" branch 
would still have to be hosted at the current UbuntuForums-provided Backports 
server (along with hoary-extras)

On 7/28/05, Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> 
> hi,
> 
> you guys (the backports team) are supposed to have it built in a
> pbuilder and tested *before* the autobuild is triggered, as MOTU does
> too for example... if there are packages that still break afterwards
> (you cant always test all arches etc), the needed fixage should be done
> in the source package (by a maintainer or by someone who gets sponsored
> by one) and a reupload should fix it... its the same way MOTU or the
> rest of the distro team works... if it builds cleanly and runs in a
> clean chroot the possibility it is broken for others is minimal.
> 
> ciao
> oli
> 
> >
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