Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It is my opinion that the current test suite doesn't scale very well and > I would like to supplement (and in the long run replace) it with > something better.
I looked this over and it looks great. I wholeheartedly approve of this and agree with your analysis of the problems with the existing test suite. The only major concern that I have is that by building more packages during the test, it will make the test suite even slower. It's already slow enough that it delays development somewhat. > * It supports building .orig.tar.gz files on-the-fly, > making it easier to create non-native test packages. This is really cool. > Status of this code: > * It builds a list of test, creates the packages for them, > builds them and runs lintian. > * It also support the literal comparison method (i.e. cmp -s) > between two tag files as done by the old test suite. > * It does not yet use the description files to refine this > comparison. Were you thinking about moving the sed thing into the description files? -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
