Re: [PATCH 3/3] docker: remove unused debian-sid and debian-ports

[John Snow]

On 9/20/19 12:20 PM, Alex Bennée wrote:
> 
> John Snow <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> On 9/20/19 4:49 AM, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
>>> On 9/20/19 2:14 AM, John Snow wrote:
>>>> These are listed as "partial" images, but have no user.
>>>> Remove them.
>>>
>>> Well, I have WiP users from them. I could restore this content when they
>>> are ready... Ports is the base of deprecated Debian archs. On the other
>>> side Sid is the base for edge development I use from time to time to
>>> test latest gcc/binutils.
>>> I'll try to find time to raise WiP branches to PoC.
>>>
>>
>> I think that's the right thing to do. Right now, the docker tests
>> directory has a lot of stale entries and unusable tests. That might be
>> fine for the people working on it, but it makes it hard to understand
>> and use for those of us who only occasionally traipse into the directory.
>>
>> I'm removing all references to python2 -- but if there's no way for me
>> to test debian-sid and debian-ports, I can't test changes I need to make
>> to these "partial images", so they should be removed until they are
>> consumable.
>>
>> While I am sympathetic to the idea of having a library of partial images
>> to use for future tests, they're prone to rot if there's no way to
>> exercise them in-tree.
> 
> Don't forget some "partial" images are only used for building TCG tests
> - we want to keep them. But as git is forever I can drop the sid/ports
> stuff for now until Phillipe has something to use them again.
> 

Oh, where? Is that defined within the tests/docker/Makefile.include or
in the TCG tree where I have not gone spelunking before?

--js