[Piuparts-devel] The piuparts development cycle (was: Re: Bug#688736: w3c-linkchecker: modifies conffiles (policy 10.7.3): /etc/w3c/checklink.conf)

[Holger Levsen]

Hi,

On Donnerstag, 27. September 2012, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> My piuparts development cycle looks like this:

atm mine is mostly reviewing and merging code and keeping piatti running :)
 
> There is only one set of regression tests for piuparts, it's the
> archive, and full rechecking takes a bit ...

I want another archive since a long time, that one should be small and contain 
a number of known good+bad packages...

> Perhaps we should document this somewhere ... "piuparts is being
> developed while continuously checking the archive. So expect to get bug
> reports discovered by experimental features before the code has been
> pushed to the git repository."

I dont think thats the right approach, IMHO those bug reports should rather 
describe how to reproduce these bugs _without_ piuparts instead. And contain 
the piuparts logfile still.


cheers,
	Holger, preparing the 0.47 upload to sid as I'm typing this...