Bug#752609: r-base-dev: Please provide a method to run upstream unit tests at package build time

2014-07-07 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Dirk, On Sun, Jul 06, 2014 at 10:27:53AM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: Yes, thanks -- it looks better now. I kept three tabs open on my desktop as reminder to come back to this 'at some point' (and I may still write a script to compare the CRAN status and what the Debian DB has -- mainly

Bug#752609: r-base-dev: Please provide a method to run upstream unit tests at package build time

2014-07-06 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Andreas, Don, Home now after all that R conferencing in Italy and LA -- and thanks again to Don for a lovely afternoon / early evening outing in LA. On 30 June 2014 at 18:58, Andreas Tille wrote: | I know that you checked since we had some conversation about this in | rstudio WNPP. I told

Bug#752609: r-base-dev: Please provide a method to run upstream unit tests at package build time

2014-06-30 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 25 June 2014 at 10:22, Andrei POPESCU wrote: | Control: reassign -1 r-base-dev | | On Mi, 25 iun 14, 09:02:53, Andreas Tille wrote: | Source: r-base-dev | Severity: normal | | Hello, | | since debhelper compatibility level 9 some automatic test is approached | if upstream provides

Bug#752609: r-base-dev: Please provide a method to run upstream unit tests at package build time

2014-06-30 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Dirk, On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 08:37:09AM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: If a CRAN package fails 'R CMD check' it will not be on CRAN, ie not be available as a source package. For any given R package, you can always run R CMD check locally. I think checking a source tarball and

Bug#752609: r-base-dev: Please provide a method to run upstream unit tests at package build time

2014-06-30 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 30 June 2014 at 16:11, Andreas Tille wrote: | I'm trying to implement checks for the binary packages to the best of my Please write a 'new source available' check, or just use what debian/watch already gives. And the QA pages. And and and. Dozens of your (ie teams) packages are MONTHS and

Bug#752609: r-base-dev: Please provide a method to run upstream unit tests at package build time

2014-06-30 Thread Andreas Tille
Dear Dirk, On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 09:44:45AM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: On 30 June 2014 at 16:11, Andreas Tille wrote: | I'm trying to implement checks for the binary packages to the best of my Please write a 'new source available' check, or just use what debian/watch already gives.

Bug#752609: r-base-dev: Please provide a method to run upstream unit tests at package build time

2014-06-30 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 30 June 2014 at 17:04, Andreas Tille wrote: | I would be really happy if you would not choose every communication with | me as a chance to bring up the same topic. Moreover your claim is - at | least currently - not true. I tried more gentle suggestions in the past, it didn't work. For

Bug#752609: r-base-dev: Please provide a method to run upstream unit tests at package build time

2014-06-30 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 30 Jun 2014, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: If a CRAN package fails 'R CMD check' it will not be on CRAN, ie not be available as a source package. It would probably be good to run these at build time too, just in case a package has local tests which fail because of a dependency which changed

Bug#752609: r-base-dev: Please provide a method to run upstream unit tests at package build time

2014-06-30 Thread Andreas Tille
Dear Dirk, On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 10:18:27AM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: On 30 June 2014 at 17:04, Andreas Tille wrote: | I would be really happy if you would not choose every communication with | me as a chance to bring up the same topic. Moreover your claim is - at | least currently

Bug#752609: r-base-dev: Please provide a method to run upstream unit tests at package build time

2014-06-25 Thread Andreas Tille
Source: r-base-dev Severity: normal Hello, since debhelper compatibility level 9 some automatic test is approached if upstream provides some tests suite in a default way. You can also add overrides to adapt to specific upstream way to run a test suite. Since for building R packages cdbs is

Bug#752609: r-base-dev: Please provide a method to run upstream unit tests at package build time

2014-06-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
Control: reassign -1 r-base-dev On Mi, 25 iun 14, 09:02:53, Andreas Tille wrote: Source: r-base-dev Severity: normal Hello, since debhelper compatibility level 9 some automatic test is approached if upstream provides some tests suite in a default way. You can also add overrides to