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A new Quality Assurance tool for Guix

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 13, 2023

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Maintaining and expanding Guix's collection of packages can be complicated. As a distribution with around 22,000 packages, spanning across around 7 architectures and with support for cross-compilation, it's quite common for problems to occur when making changes.

Quality Assurance (QA) is a general term to describe the approach taken to try and ensure something meets expectations. When applied to software, the term testing is normally used. While Guix is software, and has tests, much more than those tests are needed to maintain Guix as a distribution.

So what might quality relate to in the context of Guix as a distribution? This will differ from person to person, but these are some common concerns: [...]

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