Re: package testing, autopkgtest, and all that

2011-01-31 Thread Ian Jackson
Lucas Nussbaum writes ("Re: package testing, autopkgtest, and all that"): > If there's a packaged tool to run the test suite on a given package, > then it's quite easy to integrate it into my infrastructure. But I > clearly do not have the time to get autopkgtest'

Re: package testing, autopkgtest, and all that

2011-01-31 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 31/01/11 at 00:29 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > The best incentive for adoption in this case is having periodic runs of > package tests, with reporting. At first glance, I'm tempted to propose > to use grid archive rebuilds to run tests. Lucas: how much work would it > be to hack your rebui

Re: package testing, autopkgtest, and all that

2011-01-31 Thread Ian Jackson
Stefano Zacchiroli writes ("Re: package testing, autopkgtest, and all that"): > > I confess that this seems to be exactly one of those cases where the > DEP process (should) shine. By putting the specification in a more > visible place than (only) in an archive packa

Re: package testing, autopkgtest, and all that

2011-01-31 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 02:45:57PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Ian: would you mind summarizing the status of that effort and > > comment on whether, in your opinion, people interested on this topic > > should continue from there or start over? > > Sure. autopkgtest (the codebase) isn't very big

Re: Package testing

2007-06-17 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, > I was asking for an interface for automated package testing on > #debian-mentors, but there does not seem to be such an interface. What I > was thinking about would be some kind of script being invoked before a > package is installed or upgraded, after it is upgraded or i

Re: Package testing

2007-06-16 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On la, 2007-06-16 at 18:14 +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: > (posting from outside, so please CC me) ACK. > I was asking for an interface for automated package testing on > #debian-mentors, but there does not seem to be such an interface. What I > was thinking about would be some ki

Package testing

2007-06-16 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi, (posting from outside, so please CC me) I was asking for an interface for automated package testing on #debian-mentors, but there does not seem to be such an interface. What I was thinking about would be some kind of script being invoked before a package is installed or upgraded, after it is