Adrian von Bidder writes ("Re: Automatic testing of .deb's"): > On Monday 06 February 2006 19:53, Gustavo Franco wrote: > > On 2/6/06, Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [ filing automatic package tests to the Debian bts ] > > > The Ubuntu maintainer should always open bugs with the test related stuff > > and see if the Debian maintainer judge it's valuable or not. > > Generally yes. But this specific issue discusses a potential (slow) mass > bug-filing of many similar (in spirit, not technically) bugs and thus > warrants a discussion on d-d.
That was my view, indeed. > Ian: I add my voice to what you already perceive: these tests would be > welcome, and I'd probably accept them to my few packages. A very short > (one screenfull or so) HOWTO/README about how the whole system works linked > >from the bug would be helpful, because I don't have the time to read up on > it now, but will want to when you file the first bug on my pkgs, without > having to sort through 100 mailing list hits with 90% content which doesn't > apply anymore because the technical details were changed... Quite so. Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]