Stable Release Update Regression/Build Problem

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 03:42:15PM +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> Le mardi 24 juin 2008 à 14:23 +0100, Matt Zimmerman a écrit :
> 
> > Agreed, it's sensible to test the update in the same environment to which it
> > is about to be deployed.
> 
> Right, that makes sense but is not easy to do. Hardy got quite some
> updates and it's not really easy to try each combination. Testing one
> update against hardy-updates is not always correct since sometime
> several packages are moved to updates the same day and that's this
> combination that should be tested. Having a way to test installability
> before copying the binaries to updates would be nice though

That's a good point; exactly mirroring the sequence would force the updates
to be tested in lock-step, and slow things down.  So perhaps it can't always
be the exact environment, but I think we should aim for something close and
do what we can within the constraints we have.

A static check for installability is clearly a good idea in any case.

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 - mdz