bug#62694: 30.0.50; eglot-tests fails with recent pylsp

[Basil Contovounesios]

João Távora [2023-04-06 20:50 +0100] wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 6, 2023 at 6:39 PM Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> wrote:
>>
>> João Távora <joaotavora@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > Even if that's a problem for some hypothetical hardcore Debian
>> > user who happens to also be an Emacs developer and who uses pylsp
>> > but not in Eglot, and for some reason won't install anything from anywhere
>> > else in his development machine, we have yet to hear from the hordes of
>> > users at the intersection of all those conditions.
>>
>> The don't need to be pylsp users. A package could be installed for
>> several reasons.
>
> That could happen, but I doubt that pylsp is installed for any other
> reason than to be used.  To intersect the set of people who have
> installed it "accidentally" and additionally happen to be
> "make check"-running Emacs devs who are completely baffled when
> they see the failure.  Until I'm shown otherwise, I really think
> you're the only person in that set in the world, and you're not baffled:
> you know exactly what's going on.

Even if the user is far from baffled, each test failure that arises from
the test's logic or assumptions (rather than indicating a real problem)
is a drain on the user's time, so we should strive to avoid it.

-- 
Basil