Re: [Failure] The Package Smoketest

Mats Lidell writes: > >>>>> Stephen wrote: > > Stephen> The reason for doing anything in a branch is to avoid > Stephen> interrupting work on the mainline. > > Yes but what is interrupted is the smoketest and the ability to deliver > a distribution. > > The smoketest problem might look bad but the reason for having the > smoketest is to find problems early so they can get fixed. Sure, but we already knew there was going to be a problem; large merges like this always bring lots of problems. This isn't a reflection on any individual developer, as I said. Emacs-devel is currently having similar problems due to the GNUstep/ Cocoa merge (which was also done by moving files from a separate workspace into the mainline workspace); it broke the Windows build and caused several regressions. The point is that doing it without the help of the version control system makes it less controllable. > If the smoketest would have been smarter it would have built each > package separately and we would only have a red auctex build. Would > that have been better and acceptable? Better yes, but still not a good idea in my opinion. Look, Uwe got the job less than half done and took off on a trip. If it had been done on a branch, that wouldn't matter.