Comment 12 for bug 1000498
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(In reply to comment #10)
> On Mon, 25 Jun 2012, carlos_odonell at mentor dot com wrote:
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> > Shall we drop the testsuite addition from the backport?
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> The most conservative backport would be just patch 1/3, without the
> testsuite addition - 1/3 is fixing the regression in 2.15 (a regression
> introduced by the addition of the wordsize-64 version), the other patches
> are fixing a failure that showed up for powerpc with the new testcases but
> as far as I know that powerpc failure is not a regression.
The Power failure is still a failure and should be fixed.
Please checkin all three patches *without* the testsuite addition.
I want to avoid people working with a stable branch having testsuite failures show up out of thin air because we fixed a bug. That's OK for trunk, but not OK for a stable branch. The new testsuite failure is difficult and time-consuming for non-experts to diagnose. We hide this by fixing the bug, and using the regression test to verify the fix, but then dropping the testcase from the backport.