[Mads Lindstrøm] > Do there exist, any other kind of automatic tests that I have not > mentioned here?
More automatic testing would be good. Some packages run self-tests as part of the build process. More packages should do that. A long time ago, I wrote a prototype for testing package upgrades. It install a package in a woody chroot, edited source.list to point to sarge, and then run 'apt-get upgrade' in the chroot to see how that goes. All packages with no configuration changes are expected to upgrade nicely. Not all packages do. My prototype script is available from <URL:http://developer.skolelinux.no/~pere/upgrade-testing/>. I never found time to get any further. It would be nice if all packages in the archive was tested to check if upgrades will work as expected. (Of course, a more advanced test would modify the config files and see if the changes survived the upgrade, but that is left as an exercise for the reader. :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
