[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 173871] [GTK] install-dependencies should (possibly) be run regularly and automatically install missing packages

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=173871

--- Comment #3 from Adrian Perez <aperez at igalia.com> ---
Here goes my two cents...

(In reply to Michael Catanzaro from comment #2)
> Adrian pointed out the side-effect, which is that this would cause random
> packages to get updated from Debian. That's problematic because it could
> cause test failures that would blame to particular WebKit revisions that did
> not introduce those test failures, but were just the first revision to run
> after the updates were automatically applied.

The approach suggested in the bug title is ”[...] automatically install
**missing** packages” (emphasis mine). That means that packages would not
be upgraded/updated, and the issue you mention would be a non-issue.

TL;DR: Only missing packages would be installed when running the script
automatically in the bots.

> That can already happen currently, but only when bots are manually updated.

We would still manually update the bots for package updates/upgrades.

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