Re: [PATCH 1/6] ci: remove GETTEXT_POISON jobs

From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 20, 2021, 17:59 UTC
Message-ID: <87a6t38p71.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20210112085051.GV8396@szeder.dev>

On Tue, Jan 12 2021, SZEDER Gábor wrote:

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> On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 03:47:35PM +0100, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
>> A subsequent commit will remove GETTEXT_POISON entirely, let's start
>> by removing the CI jobs that enable the option.
>> 
>> We cannot just remove the job because the CI is implicitly depending
>> on the "poison" job being a sort of "default" job.
>
> I don't understand what you mean here with a "default job" that the CI
> is implicitly depending on.  There is certainly no such default job on
> Travis CI, and I don't think there is one on the GitHub thing.

I'll reword this. I meant that the poison job was using the default compiler etc., whereas the other ones were setting custom values.

I vaguely remember some list traffic about this in the past, i.e. the reliance on the poison job not just for that, but also as "the default OS image" setup.