Re: Debian development and release: always releasable (essay)
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 12:39 AM, Ondřej Surý wrote:
> So apart from the more hands on some packages with high priority, it
> would really help me to have some automated tests which would be run
> before uploading to testing.
>
> One thing which immediatelly comes to the mind is the install & upgrade test.
>
> 1. install every built package
> 2. try upgrade from stable for every built package
> 3. try upgrade from testing for every built package
> 4. try upgrade from unstable for every built package
Perhaps you missed the existence of piuparts.d.o?
http://piuparts.debian.org/
Failures of installation in sid are advertised on the PTS, we are
hoping to extend this to the other tests soon (#696094).
> Optionally:
> 5. do some testing with all r-deps (treeish?)
We don't yet have any systems running autopkgtest, but Ubuntu does so
you could look at their instance. In the meantime check out DEP-8:
http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep8/
Other tests may be suitable for the Debian Jenkins instance:
http://jenkins.debian.net/
--
bye,
pabs
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