Martin Pitt writes ("Re: DEP-8 extension proposal: Add source package header"):
> Subscribed. Thanks for bouncing it, as I cannot mail Ian directly
> (his MTA rejects my mail server).If you send a copy of the bounce to postmaster@chiark I will add an exception entry to my spamfilter. > Stefano Zacchiroli [2012-06-13 23:42 +0200]: > > I'm also curious about the implementation: do you actually use > > autopkgtest as low level test runner for Jenkins integration or...? > > We do. We had to fix a number of bugs there, they just recently were > uploaded to Debian as well (thanks Ian). Thanks for the fixes! > > As long as it stays as a XS-* header (which, for the history, it's also > > how Vcs-* fields came into existence), no tool change is needed. > > Not needed, but it would be nice if dpkg-source could just add it > automatically, so that developers don't need to care about it. That would be the way to do it, I think. > I saw that coming: There would be little dispute about adding a > header, but lots of difficulty to find a good name. :-) Perhaps we > should think about an actual name for DEP-8 first (similar to what we > had with DEP-5 -> "copyright 1.0 format"), and then use an > abbreviation of that for the XS-Testsuite: value? Is there some reason why we can't use "autopkgtest" ? It's a pretty boring name really and I don't mind it being reused for both spec and implementation. That's a thing we do quite often anyway. Eg "dpkg" :-) And of course the spec is currently actually in the autopkgtest package and should probably stay there for now, until things congeal some more. Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
