[Pkg-privacy-maintainers] Bug#824460: Bug#824460: testing using alpha versions?

[Holger Levsen]

On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 10:42:21PM +0200, georg at riseup.net wrote:
> On 16-05-16 10:57:03, Holger Levsen wrote:
> > one problem debugging this is that this problem occurs only if+when
> > there is a new upstream version of torbrowser to be updated too, which
> > only happens every 6-8 weeks or so.
> 
> Not sure if I'm missing something obvious here, but: If testing would
> happen in a clean, new, environment (a virtual machine for example) each
> time, one could run these tests multiple times without the need for any
> releases or updates. (I could provide hardware for this for regular,
> automated use or to set up a proof of concept.)

Hardware ressources are not the problem, we have plenty.

as I tried to say above: the problem is, an update arrives, and people
update their system. After this the update cannot be tested anymore (as
people are understandably not really willing to go back to a backed up
state and retest again).


-- 
cheers,
	Holger
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