[Python-modules-team] Bug#695955: Bug#695955: Bug#695955: fail upon failures in loops + do not ignore tests failures

[Yaroslav Halchenko]

On Thu, 03 Jan 2013, Sandro Tosi wrote:
> thanks for your work to make numpy a better package :)

thanks for maintaining this core package ;)

> > - one assures that all for loops are secured with set -e, so if any
> > command fails, the loop fails (do not remember who pointed me to this drawback
> > in my packages originally, thanks again ;) )
> that makes sense, applied (in my local checkout, will commit once the
> test build has finished).

coolio

> > - tests failures are not ignored
> they are * temporarily* ignored.

yeah -- later on Julian hinted me on that ;-)

> >   imho it is much better to submit packages with only known to fail tests
> >   disabled/excluded or
> > even better resolved
> that's currently what's being done, cfr
> https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/created_by/sandrotosi?page=1&sort=updated&state=open
> + closed.

cool!

> > yes -- currently it would lead to FTBFS since all (or nearly all -- that
> > is the point, impossible to figure out besides going through all of them 1 by
> > 1) architectures show some kind of test failure or a crash:
> yes, I know, and as you probably know too, this patch won't be
> accepted until all those tests are ironed out.

fair enough

thanks again
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