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["Eric Sandall" <eric AT sandall.us>]

Quoting "George Sherwood" <pilot AT beernabeer.com>:

> On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:50:20 -0800
> "Eric Sandall" <eric AT sandall.us> wrote:
<snip>
> > I believe one of the requirements for a commit is that it was tested
> > and works with the default version (and default settings) of a
> > package. ;)
>
> Well if I had known that I would have done no bug fixing today. :)  I
> surely am not going to downgrade all my machines to build gamin against
> glibc 2.7.  Luckily I had one that I hadn't updated.

Yeah, that makes testing a PITA when we're working on a newer version  
of a package (especially something as core as glibc), but that  
requirement is there for a reason. :)

For me, I don't expect developers to have a default install of every  
package on their system (chroot, VM, whatnot) just to test, but I  
think that the package being modified should be tested with the  
defaults before being committed. This way you only have to worry about  
one package (at a time) being default. Yeah, for modifying packages  
like glibc  this would be a lot of work to switch between. I don't  
expect you to have all of GNOME set to the default when testing glibc,  
but at least have glibc set to default. ;)

-sandalle

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