On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 12:12:26PM -0700, you wrote:
On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 02:59:22PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 11:41:27AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> In Ubuntu, we have applied the attached patch to include autopkgtests in the
> coreutils package. As a core package, it is useful to have autopkgtests in
> order to detect regressions (however unlikely) introduced by the
> dependencies of coreutils.
> Would you consider including this patch in Debian?
Maybe after buster, but probably no. For years I did have coreutils run
tests on build, but test failures were far too common due to false positives
caused by idiosyncratic autobuilder configurations.
Ok, fair. FWIW the autopkgtest that's been defined here appears to be
fairly reliable in Ubuntu: http://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/packages/coreutils
You have a lot fewer platforms. :) OTOH, it may become more reasonable as
some of the more obscure platforms are going away.
