On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 05:55:02PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > > > I agree with the bug reporter, then. A package of the importance of shadow > > should desserve a test suite which would prevent the package building when > > something's going wrong. Even if it's called "unstable", the day I won't be > > able to log onto my machine for one whole day, I'll get *mad*. > > One of the duties of package maintainers is *testing* his/her package > before uploading it. > > So, even if, of course, we cannot test everything, at least a basic > "dpkg -i login_... passwd_..." later followed by some basic login > tests are assumed to always happen. > > So, well, we can retitle the bug "Please write a testsuite for shadow > building"....and then leave it lie in the BTS for another 5 years, for > sure. > > I sincerely doubt someone will ever take care of writing such a test > suite. > > And I sincerely hope to be proven wrong..:-)
If you promise to use the ltp-* package to test each shadow upload, you're welcome to close this bug ;) Documenting it somewhere in the SVN would be good if it reveals as useful as the submitter says. Bye, Mt.
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