Making unit tests first-class again across PIM repos

[Volker Krause]

On Mittwoch, 11. August 2021 14:21:41 CEST Adriaan de Groot wrote:
> Hi Glen,
> 
> On Monday, 9 August 2021 19:12:55 CEST Glen Ditchfield wrote:
> > 5) I have seen tests fail in my development environment that succeed in
> > Jenkins, and vice versa.  I have no idea how to investigate FreeBSD and
> > Windows issues.  See 4).
> 
> To address part of this point specifically:
> 
> - if FreeBSD, send mail to groot at kde.org and/or kde at freebsd.org saying "this
> broke, look at it"
> 
> That's the approach David Faure takes, and it works reasonably well (I don't
> watch the CI for much, but a suitable prodding will even get me to fix
> things).
> 
> [ade]
> 
> PS. Which reminds me, the Qt MySQL driver is not compatible with the
> "latest" MySQL 5 client libraries, which triggers akonadi failures, and I
> should probably try to upstream the fix for that (the fix is,
> unfortunately, in Qt so it's more annoying than just fixing PIM)

It's already fixed in Qt, the 5.15 backport is here:
https://invent.kde.org/qt/qt/qtbase/-/merge_requests/42
and another one here (no idea if that also affects Akonadi):
https://invent.kde.org/qt/qt/qtbase/-/merge_requests/43

Regards,
Volker
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