Re: libfoo-bar-baz-perl: New upstream release

[Dominique Dumont <domi@komarr.grenoble.hp.com>]

Florian Ragwitz <florian.ragwitz@s2004.tu-chemnitz.de> writes:

>> Software which is a few days "fresh" might still be quite buggy,
>
> That depends heavily on the developers release philosophy and can't be
> generalized, IMHO.

This will also depend on the number (easy to evaluate) and quality
(less easy to evaluate) of the non-reg tests performed with make test.

This should be taken into account when you ponder whether to upload a
new version of an upstream module or not.

You could also check the QA perl site [1] to check the global quality
of a new release.

HTH

[1] http://testers.cpan.org/

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Dominique Dumont 
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