Re: [libvirt] [jenkins-ci PATCH 1/6] guests: Don't prepare Ubuntu 16.04 for virt-manager
On Fri, 2018-08-10 at 10:31 +0200, Erik Skultety wrote:
On Thu, Aug 09, 2018 at 03:16:38PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> virt-manager can't be built successfully on the
> platform, so we shouldn't install the corresponding
> build dependencies.
For the sake of history, it would be nice to be a bit more detailed as why it
can't be built on a specific distro.
As mentioned on IRC, whenever we have to introduce an exception
to our general "build every project on every platform" mantra, it's
certainly useful to document the rationale. We have a few examples
of that happening already, but there's plenty of room for
improvement as well.
I think that information belongs to the code rather than to the
commit messages, though. So would you be okay if I pushed these
patches as-is and posted a follow-up series that adds information
about all exceptions as comments in the relevant files?
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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization