On Tue, 04 Feb 2014, Martin Quinson wrote: > I would see the use of a C program to test quilt as a regression, > personnally. We need quilt to be interpreted and not compiled in > Debian, or it becomes really difficult for us to use it as we > currently do.
This doesn't sound right. You could see exxe as a new build dependency so that you're able to run the test suite. On Wed, 05 Feb 2014, Martin Quinson wrote: > On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 11:32:56AM +0100, Andreas Grünbacher wrote: > > You run the test suite when building the package, not when installing it, > > right? > > Yes, that's correct. But I'm still reluctant to ensure that a part of > the infrastructure is possibly not testable on all platforms due to > some obscure bug in the toolchain that would get unoticed until we > need the testing program. I don't follow you at all here. There's no reason to believe that exxe would not be portable. > Moreover, there is a new debian toy allowing to write tests that are > run on the installed package (not in the source tree) to increase the > software quality. I'm not using it yet, but I'd prefer not to do > anything that would prevent this to happen without a reason. There's nothing here that could prevent you from using it. The tool you're referring to (autopkgtest) can install arbitrary dependencies and it can also give you an unpacked source tree. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Discover the Debian Administrator's Handbook: → http://debian-handbook.info/get/ _______________________________________________ Quilt-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/quilt-dev
