Package: gem2deb Severity: wishlist Full thread starting at http://lists.debian.org/debian-ruby/2011/10/msg00009.html
----- Forwarded message from Gunnar Wolf <[email protected]> ----- From: Gunnar Wolf <[email protected]> To: Debian Ruby list <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 10:38:15 -0500 Subject: Re: Default tests X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/latest/1782 List-Id: <debian-ruby.lists.debian.org> Paul van Tilburg dijo [Sun, Oct 02, 2011 at 09:37:07PM +0200]: > (...) > As you all know, not all gems ship tests or working tests. So some libs > have tests disabled or no build-time test suite just yet. > So, what if we put, by default, a very stupid syntax/load test in the > generated debian-dir of a gem2debianized lib (e.g. ruby1.X -r<lib> or > ruby -c <lib>.rb). We would already catch problems such as the one for > ruby-rchardet (dbts #643770). (I also recall Ruby extentions that > segfault when loaded by Ruby 1.9.1 in the past). > > Now, it maybe hard to determine what <lib> should be in some cases, > but if the gem2deb-generated boilerplate by default assumes <lib> > to be the argument passed to gem2deb, we can get quite far. > (Possible we can also figure it out from the gemspec?) One needs to > change the boiler plate anyway, so it's easy to also touch > debian/ruby-test.rb and it might even encourage people to fix/expand the > tests. > > Any thoughts? Yes, I find it very sensible. Of course, this could be part of the gem2deb procedure, overridable in case <lib> is either not correctly guessed, or in case there is more than one library. The ideal would be to include every source file shipped as a library - Although there are many cases where libraries depend on symbols declared on other libraries, so we cannot just do a recursive "ruby -l $foo" on all lib/*.rb... But it would be the best way. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] ----- End forwarded message ----- _______________________________________________ Pkg-ruby-extras-maintainers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-ruby-extras-maintainers
