improve and reorder recent commit messages #1
Description
- Ideally failing tests for issues would appear before the commit that fixes them.
- Mention more bug numbers (e.g. 94770c5 fixes Debian bug 874048) in commit messages.
This disruptive history rewriting should occur before anyone forks this repository. However, I preserved the date and author of many patches, and I think a simple git rebase -i would lose these. So given the workarounds below I'm inclined not to fix this.
Testing earlier commits
Checkout latest (which has the test infrastructure) , run ./configure --prefix=/tmp which will create tests/Makefile, then rename the tests subdirectory to tests_SAVE to preserve it, then checkout an earlier commit. You can now configure and build the earlier commit's binaries, and still cd tests_SAVE and run make check. Interpret the individual PASS and FAIL results manually.
Mention bug numbers
tests/README.md has some more info on some of the fixed bugs.