Re: [E-devel] ecore tests fail with beta3 tarballs

[Albin T. <lu...@de...>]

On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 09:11 +0100, Vincent Torri wrote :
> tests are for developpers, not packagers

That is terribly wrong. Packagers care about testsuites for one simple reason:
as thoroughly as developers may be testing the code, that will never guarantee
proper behaviour on the system on which the code is built.

When creating packages for Debian, I /do/ care about the testsuites because
the testsuite not failing is the only reliable thing telling me the lib is not
utterly broken on the system it is being built on.

I understand users not listening or unwilling to fix the suite to fit their
needs is a pain, but let's not make it an even greater pain for people who just
want to use it and manage to. Things have improved a lot as far as packaging is
concerned in the last months, and this is clearly a step backwards.

Please reconsider your decision.

Cheers,
-- 
Albin Tonnerre