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bug#42771: [PATCH] Disable tests for smalltalk and add candidate release
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
bug#42771: [PATCH] Disable tests for smalltalk and add candidate releases |
Date: |
Sat, 05 Dec 2020 15:30:11 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) |
Hi Holger,
Holger Peters <holger.peters@posteo.de> skribis:
> * gnu/packages/smalltalk.scm (smalltalk): disable tests
> (smalltalk-next): New variable.
> (smalltalk-next-from-vcs): New variable.
I have mostly two comments, as discussed on IRC (restating them here for
those following along):
1. Instead of disabling tests wholesale, what we usually do is (1)
investigate why the test is failing (I think it’s a single test
failure here), (2) try to determine whether it’s serious or not,
(3) see if we can work around it with reasonable effort, and if
not, skip just this test.
2. I think we should just have ‘smalltalk’ (latest release) and
‘smalltalk-next’ (VCS snapshot). Having an extra package for the
release candidate is not really useful IMO, and not something we
generally do.
HTH!
Ludo’.