On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 18:34 +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting Walter Franzini ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> > > I think it would be better to not run the testsuite.
> >
> > I'm not sure it will be the right choice.
>
>
> Well, I understand the concern, but unless someone comes up with a
> patch that fixes the testsuite to properly run on autobuilders, it
> fails and makes the package RC-buggy....
Sorry for being late in the game.
The debian package of aegis builds with the test suite enabled now for
many years and the autobuilders used to build aegis packages with sbuild
just fine.
The pbuilder issue was separate and didn't affect the architecture
autobuilders because they didn't use pbuilder. Did this change
recently ? Are the autobuilders now pbuilder based ?
There were various efforts and investigations to fix the pbuilder issue
over the years but so far nobody came up with a proper solution.
Besides somewhere in the pbuilder discussions it was stated that a
failure to build with pbuilder is _not_ release critical wrt to policy
as long as it builds with sbuild.
Unfortunately almost all of the special archive autobuilds (not the
standard autobuilders) use some pbuilder based setup which makes this
particular bug really annoying.
> From the debian/changelog history, I see several occasions where the
> testsuite made the package FTBFS on Debian autobuilders.
>
> So, at least as a temporary solution, building without the testsuite
> seems to be the best way to get the package in Debian lenny...
>
> That does not prevent the maintainer to have the duty of running "make
> sure" on a clean Debian system, of course, to guarantee that it works
> properly.
I'd rather not disable the testsuite. Every failed build because of
testsuite failures is interesting for upstream, improves the package
quality and widens regression testing. The aegis developers worked very
hard to achieve a pretty comprehensive automated testsuite which should
be used for its purpose: finding bugs during the binary packaging phase.
> What's puzzling to me is the maintainer's silence, here...:-|
Sorry for that,
Christian
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