On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 19:11, Guy Hulbert <gwhulb...@eol.ca> wrote: > On Sat, 2009-26-12 at 17:13 +0100, W. Martin Borgert wrote: >> Quoting "anatoly techtonik" <techto...@gmail.com>: >> If unit tests were in the package, reportbug could automatically >> run them on a bug report. Does someone do this already, maybe? > > Can reportbug be modified to download a source package and run tests ?
Short answer: no. Detailed answer: no, because: - it bloats reportbug to do something that's not meant to (it _reports bugs_) - how to recognize packages that have unit tests and those that haven't? - where are those unit tests and how to execute them? more generally: there is no standard way to run unit tests. - what if unit tests need additional dependencies (not present on the user system) to be executed? Regards, -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-python-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org