Re: [Quilt-dev] [patch 0/8] test/run: Cleanups and optimizations

[Raphael Hertzog]

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,
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Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer

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