Re: Testing of auto-built packages

2003-05-01 Thread Martin Albert
On Wednesday 30 April 2003 14:18, Berin Lautenbach wrote: > So the question is, is it permissable to put such a basic test of a > library into the rules file that gets executed as part of the build > process? If so, are there any guidelines anywhere as to how one > > The test would involve compili

Re: Re: Testing of auto-built packages

2003-04-30 Thread berin
> > I think that's more common than you might think. very few sound packages in > Debian actually work on big-endian systems because they often simply read the > WAV header into a in-memory structure. > And I think that's exactly the problem here (multi-byte characters being handled incorrectl

Re: Testing of auto-built packages

2003-04-30 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, On Wed, 30 Apr 2003 13:49:05 +, Joshua Kwan wrote: > I believe coreutils does this exactly this kind of thing. Or, for instance, Perl. Tests are good. More tests are better. => Do it. -- Matthias

Re: Testing of auto-built packages

2003-04-30 Thread Joshua Kwan
On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 10:18:54PM +1000, Berin Lautenbach wrote: > So the question is, is it permissable to put such a basic test of a > library into the rules file that gets executed as part of the build > process? If so, are there any guidelines anywhere as to how one might > go about doing

Re: Testing of auto-built packages

2003-04-30 Thread Patrick Caulfield
On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 10:18:54PM +1000, Berin Lautenbach wrote: > Peoples, > > I have been looking at a bug in a library that only appears to be > occuring on the PPC platform. This is something I don't have, but the > autobuilders are taking the source upload of the package in question > (X

Testing of auto-built packages

2003-04-30 Thread Berin Lautenbach
Peoples, I have been looking at a bug in a library that only appears to be occuring on the PPC platform. This is something I don't have, but the autobuilders are taking the source upload of the package in question (Xalan), getting a successful build, and pushing the .debs into unstable. Whi