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Date:      Fri, 14 Jun 2013 14:36:03 +0200
From:      Michael Gmelin <freebsd@grem.de>
To:        Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de>
Cc:        Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Are ports supposed to build and run on 10-CURRENT?
Message-ID:  <20130614143603.3c2a7837@bsd64.grem.de>
In-Reply-To: <20130613062417.GA868@tiny.Sisis.de>
References:  <20130613031535.4087d7f9@bsd64.grem.de> <CAF6rxgn1PR8mVGYtCrgh16Cpf9uBwdnqbhV=XXC0vME7uA%2BYEg@mail.gmail.com> <20130613062417.GA868@tiny.Sisis.de>

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On Thu, 13 Jun 2013 08:24:18 +0200
Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> wrote:

> El d=C3=ADa Thursday, June 13, 2013 a las 08:07:14AM +0200, Eitan Adler
> escribi=C3=B3:
>=20
> > On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 3:15 AM, Michael Gmelin <freebsd@grem.de>
> > wrote:
> > > So my question is: Are we port maintainers now really supposed to
> > > make ports work with CURRENT?
> >=20
> > This is generally up to the maintainer; however many committers run
> > -CURRENT and test on that by default.
>=20
> This was a widely general question and a general answer too;
> I'm afraid that not all committers run tests with -CURRENT and on both
> architectures (amd64 and i386);
>=20
> at least for KDE4 I can confirm that it is unable to build on -CURRENT
> r250588 i386 due to:
>=20
> 1. certain required ports does not compile with clang
> 2. for kdelibs4 (and others) the tool automoc4 SIGSEGV randomly (i.e.
> for different source files and if you run it again it works)
>=20
> all this on a SVN clean ports tree;
>=20
> the current situation with CURRENT/clang/ports is highly a concern;
>=20
> 	matthias

To be perfectly honest, the fact that some committers seem to *solely*
test on CURRENT seems like bad QA practice to me.

--=20
Michael Gmelin



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