I'm hereby taking DEP number 8 to standardize (and advertise) automatic as-installed package testing, currently implemented by the "autokpkgtest" package. The first paragraph of DEP8 with the needed meta-information is as follows:
Title: autopkgtest - automatic as-installed package testing DEP: 8 State: DRAFT Date: 2011-02-25 Drivers: Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk>, Iustin Pop <ius...@debian.org>, Stefano Zacchiroli <z...@debian.org> URL: http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep8 License: Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright notice and this notice are preserved. Abstract: Establish a standard interface to define and run "as-installed" tests of packages, i.e. the testing of packages in a context as close as possible to a Debian system where the packages subject to testing are properly installed. The draft will be available soon at the URL reported above and we kept up to date there. Discussion will happen on debian-devel@lists.d.o. Messages will be tagged with the [DEP8] label in their subject. A first draft will be posted to -devel shortly. The 3 drivers reported above are a bit short of time, so help is still welcome if you'd like to help with bookkeeping during the discussion. Contact me off-list to that end. On behalf of the drivers, -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Quando anche i santi ti voltano le spalle, | . |. I've fans everywhere ti resta John Fante -- V. Capossela .......| ..: |.......... -- C. Adams
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