Bug#693691: gzip: Enable autopkgtest, add simple gzip test

2018-12-28 Thread Niels Thykier
On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 13:21:14 -0700 Bdale Garbee wrote: > Ian Jackson writes: > > > I haven't looked at gzip in particular, so I don't know what its > > upstream test suite is like. > > Fairly basic testing similar to what was added in the patch... very > unlike tar, which has a quite

Bug#693691: gzip: Enable autopkgtest, add simple gzip test

2012-11-19 Thread Daniel Holbach
Package: gzip Version: 1.5-1.1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch User: ubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com Usertags: origin-ubuntu raring ubuntu-patch Dear Maintainer, it'd be great to enable autopkgtest tests for gzip as it's an essential part of any system. I took the liberty to write an (admittedly)

Bug#693691: gzip: Enable autopkgtest, add simple gzip test

2012-11-19 Thread Bdale Garbee
Daniel Holbach daniel.holb...@ubuntu.com writes: it'd be great to enable autopkgtest tests for gzip as it's an essential part of any system. I took the liberty to write an (admittedly) very simple autopkgtest and add it to the package. Is there some reason you're ignoring the package's

Bug#693691: gzip: Enable autopkgtest, add simple gzip test

2012-11-19 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 10:07:40AM -0700, Bdale Garbee wrote: Is there some reason you're ignoring the package's existing test suite? While I hadn't been paying attention to it, now that I've read about it I certainly don't object to the concept behind dep8. But it makes no sense at all to

Bug#693691: gzip: Enable autopkgtest, add simple gzip test

2012-11-19 Thread Iustin Pop
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 10:07:40AM -0700, Bdale Garbee wrote: Daniel Holbach daniel.holb...@ubuntu.com writes: it'd be great to enable autopkgtest tests for gzip as it's an essential part of any system. I took the liberty to write an (admittedly) very simple autopkgtest and add it to

Bug#693691: gzip: Enable autopkgtest, add simple gzip test

2012-11-19 Thread Ian Jackson
Stefano Zacchiroli writes (Re: Bug#693691: gzip: Enable autopkgtest, add simple gzip test): On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 10:07:40AM -0700, Bdale Garbee wrote: So, I'm not interested in merging this patch as-is. If it can be reworked to run the existing test suite on an autopkgtest testbed

Bug#693691: gzip: Enable autopkgtest, add simple gzip test

2012-11-19 Thread Bdale Garbee
Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk writes: I haven't looked at gzip in particular, so I don't know what its upstream test suite is like. Fairly basic testing similar to what was added in the patch... very unlike tar, which has a quite comprehensive upstream test suite that actually