On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 07:44:33PM -0500, Jeff King wrote:

On Sat, Feb 09, 2019 at 03:06:05PM +0100, SZEDER Gábor wrote:

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On Thu, Feb 07, 2019 at 10:17:44PM -0500, Todd Zullinger wrote:

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Looking through the build logs for the fedora git packages, I noticed it
was missing the GPGSM prereq.

Just curious: how did you noticed the missing GPGSM prereq?

I'm asking because I use a patch for a good couple of months now that
collects the prereqs missed by test cases and prints them at the end
of 'make test'.  Its output looks like this:

  https://travis-ci.org/szeder/git/jobs/490944032#L2358

But it looks from the output like it just mentions every prereq that
wasn't satisfied. I don't think that's particularly useful to show for
all users, since most of them are platform things that cannot be changed
(and you'd never get the list to zero, since some of them are mutually
exclusive).

The idea was that people might notice when a new unmet prereq pops up
all of a sudden, because they modified something on their setup, or
because a new prereq was recently introduced, e.g. PERLJSON.  Or they
might notice that a prereq necessary to test a fundamental feature is
missing on their setup that they haven't been aware of before, e.g.
TTY.