Ho, On 30.11.2017 10:07, Andreas Tille wrote: > thanks for your comments. I'd really love if more people become > involved in autopkgtests and teaching newcomers!
I am also a newcomer with respect to autopackage tests. > On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 10:30:14PM +0100, Fabian Klötzl wrote: >> One issue I have with DEP-8 (autopackagetest) is that it is unspecified >> *what* shall be tested. Eg. how do we verify that figtree does indeed >> produce a correct phylogeny and not just an empty file? > > I have seen *very* simple autopkgtests that are just running a > > program -h > > successfully. DEP-8 is not specifying this exactly but even very basic > testing is better than no testing at all. I admit we should rather gain > for more detailed tests but for some GUI only programs this could be an > option, thought. I think it would be an OK compromise for Debian Med to just check if a tool runs and leave the functionality testing to the upstream author, where it belongs. Afterall, it is call auto*pkg*tests. >>> I am attaching the patch file - since it is my first try for writing a >>> test and even using the 'git format-patch' command , any feedback will >>> be much appreciated. >> >> I am kind of surprised to see that your third testcase actually works >> (creating a gif). Because it doesn't work on my Arch Linux machine and I >> even opened an issue upstream [1]. Looks like I have to do some >> investigations. > > GIF does not work for me as well and I do not think that this is a > drawback since PNG is working instead. May be that's a documentation > issue. Someone might like to check SVG. GIF works just fine on my Ubuntu LTS‽ Fabian
