Bonjour Charles, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 11:04:38PM +0100, Cédric Boutillier a écrit : > > > > For the test suite to run for this package, an instance of the mysqld > > server needs to be started. Installing mysql-server-5.1 as a > > build-dependency does not start the daemon in a pbuilder chroot, because > > of policy-rc.d
> Bonjour Cédric, > I am also a big fan of regression testing at build time, but indeed, it makes > build dependancies more complex. > I think that the way to go is to use frameworks like autopkgtest. I hope that > in the future, our infrastructure will systematically run such tests on new > packages. To help this happen, we need to provide packages that implement > auopkgtest tests. How about using it in your case ? > http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep8/ That is indeed a great idea. I believe though that it is something that has to be taken care of inside the packaging tool we use, instead of inside every single package. There is a whishlist bug reported against gem2deb (#637917) to integrate gem2deb with DEP-8. So that is something we could adopt in the (near?) future. Cédric
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