Re: ✘ Release blockers?

[Fred Wright]

On Thu, 26 Dec 2019, Gary E. Miller wrote:

> Rather than goind around and around, changing the meaning of words, how
> about you show any problem that you think exists in one of the gpsd
> regressions.  Talking around a problem does not illuminate it, data
> does.

This isn't about "regressions", it's about presenting incorrect 
information to users in client programs.  Regression tests only prove that 
the code does the same thing as it did before, regardless of correctness. 
Regression tests are correctness agnostic.

However, I've determined that the trouble in question was already present 
in 3.19 and I just hadn't looked closely enough to notice, so it's not a 
release blocker.

I also spent some time chasing another problem that I thought was new, but 
was actually just opportunistically behaving worse with the new code, and 
the fix affects lots of regression tests, so I'm putting off fixing that.

I did push a fix for a small problem I noticed while investigating, as 
well as a tweak for xgps.

I've done the usual testing across a wide range of machines and VMs, and 
it looks good to go.

Fred Wright