Re: [Quilt-dev] [patch 0/8] test/run: Cleanups and optimizations

[Andreas Grünbacher]

2014-02-05 Martin Quinson <address@hidden>:
> Yes, that's correct. But I'm still reluctant to ensure that a part of
> the infrastructure is possibly not testable on all platforms due to
> some obscure bug in the toolchain that would get unoticed until we
> need the testing program.
>
> Moreover, there is a new debian toy allowing to write tests that are
> run on the installed package (not in the source tree) to increase the
> software quality. I'm not using it yet, but I'd prefer not to do
> anything that would prevent this to happen without a reason.

This all sounds rather confused to me. Please leave those FUD
arguments at home.

> And you didn't tell us what the benefit of this tool would be for
> quilt, or did I miss something maybe?

It could end up much nicer to use, or maybe not. It's just a possibility.

Thanks,
Andreas