Hi Andreas,

On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 1:21 AM Andreas Tille <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Pranav,
>
> On Sat, May 09, 2020 at 09:54:56PM +0530, Pranav Ballaney wrote:
> > I've added autopkgtests to cgview. Since the output is an image, I
> haven't
> > compared it to a reference - is that alright?
>
> Its definitely better than nothing.
>
> > If not, how do we usually test packages like this? I tried running a diff
> > but that reported the files to be different, even though they were
> visually
> > the same.
>
> I somehow thought there are some image comparison packages inside Debian.
> A short search has lead me to
>
>
> https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/9774/command-line-tool-to-check-whether-two-images-are-exactly-the-same-graphically
>
> which recommends
>
>    identify -quiet -format "%#" images...
>
> > Please take a look and let me know if any additional steps are required.
> > https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/cgview
>
> Please note that I used xz compression on the xml data to save some
> space also on developers machines.  I've also called routine-update -f
> to update the packaging.  I do not think that the image comparison is
> mandatory here - its way better to test at all than to make it perfect.
> But if you want to give identify a try that would be fine.
>

Okay then let's leave the test here. Thanks for the compression, I'll keep
that in mind for future tests.

However, we have a remaining problem in my pbuilder chroot:
>
> autopkgtest [19:32:42]: test run-unit-test: [-----------------------
> run-detectors: unable to find an interpreter for /usr/bin/cgview
> autopkgtest [19:32:43]: test run-unit-test: -----------------------]
> autopkgtest [19:32:43]: test run-unit-test:  - - - - - - - - - - results -
> - - - - - - - - -
> run-unit-test        FAIL non-zero exit status 2
>
>
This is weird - all tests pass in my chroot. Could it be like the issue we
had with loki a few months ago?
It worked perfectly on Liubov's machine too.

@Nilesh, could you please take a look here?


> It somehow sounds similar to this thread:
>
>     https://lists.debian.org/debian-java/2016/04/msg00098.html
>
> I'd recommend to check with [email protected] .  In
> the case of artfastqgenerator I've circumvented the problem
> a wrapper script.


Let's let Nilesh try it once, and if the problem persists, we'll take it up
with the Java team.

Regards,
Pranav
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