Hi, On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 09:44:36AM -0500, Doug Torrance wrote: > >BTW, I noticed that you did some patches to get gtest working which is > >great. I know that gtest is a bit tricky. I also like that you > >invented some autopkgtest. I wonder whether you see any chance to run > >the whole set of unittests also in autopkgtest (I have no idea how hard > >this might be to approach). > > Yeah, I followed the advice in [1] and just chose a simple "smoke > test" as opposed to repeating the upstream tests.
Ahh, interesting. May be I'm responsible for this kind of misuse. I allways try to repeat the upstream test suite - however, not actually inside the source tarball. I always try to create an example code / data set either inside the doc package or a separate examples package (depending from its size) and run the test suite adapted to this. This has uncovered some strange things not expected by upstream. Moreover I do not fully subscribe to the instead of repeating the upstream test suite (which we already know that it passed) quote in[1]. For several packages the test that were running at package build time several dependencies might have upgraded versions that might behave differently. However, I think I can not blame you about following [1] and feel free to keep on doing tests as recommended there. But I personally will probably not do as suggested there due to my good experiences in previous more extensive tests. > >Additional note: In both packages (mathic and mathicgb) you needed to > >create the tarball manually since upstream does not add release tags. > >Did you contacted upstream about this and refer to > > > > https://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamGuide#Source_only_tarball > > Done. > > >Please keep this mailing list in CC if you do so to enable further > >comments of people reading this list. > > D'oh -- I intended to but must not have. That's what I get for > doing things too late at night. It should be fine if you might bounce your mail to the list ... Kind regards Andreas. > [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2014/05/msg00004.html -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
