Re: Call for tests: New python-magic Python bindings for libmagic

2018-02-04 Thread Christoph Biedl
Paul Wise wrote... > It might be a good idea to do these: > > Try to rebuild any packages that build-dep on python{,3}-magic and > compare the resulting binary packages with diffoscope. Thanks for this suggestion. Turns out one package will indeed fail to build, fix was trivial. (alot, #889293)

Re: Call for tests: New python-magic Python bindings for libmagic

2018-01-21 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Jan 21, 2018 at 11:48 PM, Christoph Biedl wrote: > Paul Wise >check-all-the-things Works without changes, but uses very small amounts of the API. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

Re: Call for tests: New python-magic Python bindings for libmagic

2018-01-21 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Jan 21, 2018 at 11:48 PM, Christoph Biedl wrote: > Call for tests It might be a good idea to do these: Try to rebuild any packages that build-dep on python{,3}-magic and compare the resulting binary packages with diffoscope. Try to run the autopkgtests for packages that dep/test-dep on

Call for tests: New python-magic Python bindings for libmagic

2018-01-21 Thread Christoph Biedl
# TL;DR * The python-magic Python library for file type detection will switch to a different implementation soon. * Code that relies on the old implementation should not be harmed, everything else is a bug. * Such code however might need an adjustment some distant day, not before the buste