A Suggestion for Release Testing

[Mike Stump]

On Jun 12, 2005, at 10:51 AM, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> Note, though, that this is only one part of the equation.  A most
> significant amount of work also goes into analysing and potentially
> fixing packages which do not compile any longer and submit fixes
> upstream.

:-(  Sometimes we wish that gcc had a 5 year warn cycle, followed by  
a 5 year, -fpretty-please cycle, just so that we don't loose the  
testing that building tons of software brings to the table.