Re: [PATCH]: xfce4-power-manager: new variable

[Ludovic Courtès]

Leo Famulari <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Thu, Dec 03, 2015 at 03:04:55PM +0100, Florian Paul Schmidt wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> attached is a patch for a first stab at packaging xfce4-power-manager. Since
>> I used a different package as a base for this one there might be some
>> unneeded inputs. I wonder if you guys have a tip for creating a little
>> scheme snippet that would try all combinations of inputs to determine the
>> minimal set for which ones the package build still succeeds? ;) [lazy flo]
>
> The potential issue with this approach is that a lot of software will
> build successfully even if some dependencies are missing. And then it
> will fail at runtime, sometimes only in certain scenarios. Not that I
> haven't thought about doing the same thing... :)
>
> Ideally each program would have a test suite that exercised every code
> path. Maybe AFL would be useful there? That sounds expensive but for
> very complex systems, it would be worth it, because in my limited
> experience packaging software, I have found that many upstream
> developers are not aware of the dependency graph of their software. It's
> fun to send them the output of "guix graph".

Looks like the xfce4-power-manager patch fell through the cracks.  Leo,
could you maybe do a final polishing pass and commit it?

Thanks,  :-)
Ludo’.