On Friday 26 October 2007 15:26, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > I'm more interested in piuparts tests than in builds, actually. The > point is that most DDs don't use piuparts because there's not many > benefits in spending time setting it up. Having a piuparts installation > working on mentors.d.n would allow everybody to easily test his > packages. I'm not sure if I understand this right, but what would be done with the result of the tests you'd run on mentors? My "problem" with piuparts is not the setting up, but the amount of false positives it gives, at least on my packages. If you flag packages as "does not pass piuparts" it may be percieved as a package being of inferior quality, but there may be many reasons to fail piuparts. Most notably piuparts can not discriminate between a problem in my package or in a package I depend on. That could have changed of course in the very recent past? To be clear, I think that piuparts is a very worthwhile tool, but not something to require of packages to pass, or to use as a binary quality measurement for a package. The results are very useful, but only if you thoroughly inspect the cause of failure. Which has to happen by hand. Thijs
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