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On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 08:57:53PM +0100, Roland Lutz wrote:
...
> So the options to handle this are:
> (a) Don't merge the code until the defect is fixed.
> (b) Have "make distcheck" fail as a reminder that the code doesn't work right.
> (c) Hack the test driver so a failed test doesn't cause "make distcheck" to abort.
> (d) Add the defect to the documentation as a known bug and set the corresponding tests to XFAIL.

(e) File a bug report for the defect and don't switch on testing for
    it until it will be fixed.

Ideally 'make distcheck' should never fail. This is a requirement
for new releases by convention and we should allow a new release
at any time. Imagine a developer has made some changes and left
the project, died, married at last... and nobody understands how to
fix her Scheme/Python/Haskell code ;)

Cheers,
  Vladimir