On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 22:09 +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 09:59:29PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > We assume the following axioms: > [..] > > 2) It is impossible to ensure that functionality will not be reduced > > without sufficient testing. > > Your axioms are obviously wrong. An update which simply bumped a > release number would have the same functionality. Since you claim It would be rebuilt from source, as all updates are. The build would not be performed in the exact same circumstances as the original build. We'd certainly hope that wouldn't change anything, but it's impossible to be certain. Your post is clearly nitpicking, but this is an important point; I've certainly seen cases when I was at Mandriva where a rebuild didn't work, whereas the initial build still did; various odd issues, such as build environment changes, can cause this. Actually, it happened to me once, if I recall correctly, with Kompozer. The initial build I'd done a few months previously for a given Mandriva release worked in Cooker (Rawhide equivalent). If you took the exact same SRPM and rebuilt it with the then-current Cooker environment - even though the old binary package still worked in that environment! - the resulting binary package did not work at all. Which only goes to illustrate that updates are tricky and *really, really* anything can go wrong. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
