[Pkg-javascript-devel] not failing package build on libv8 and nodejs tests

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 04:26:19PM +0100, Jérémy Lal wrote:
>currently libv8 and nodejs run their regression test suites
>when building package.
>They are quite useful to the maintainer, allowing to detect
>and fix bugs before release, as well as having useful logs on
>other architectures (that is, armel).
>However, not building the package because there is one regression
>is frustrating, and does not allow further tests :
>* upstream v8 does not always backports fixes when it comes to ARM,
>* upstream nodejs release some failing tests on purpose
>
>That's why i'm going to let the tests succeed even if one of them is
>failing, at least in this early release cycle.

I disagree.

Code in Debian unstable is production-ready code.  The term "unstable" 
relates to the distributability, not the usability!

So whenever upstream provides regression tests, we should enable them, 
when targeted unstable.

I am ok with relaxing it for experimental, but for unstable we should 
instead apply patches for each specific test failing, instead of 
globally giving up on relying on upstream tests to be sensible.


  - Jonas

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