On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 06:34:39AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > Le Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 09:36:50PM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : > > > > > > > > Here is a patch to update the Policy accordingly. Do you have comments ? > > > On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 07:44:19AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > > > > Anybody wanting to see the Testsuite field documented in the Policy, please > > > raise your hand ! > > Le Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 03:48:26PM +0200, Andreas Tille a écrit : > > > > Raise my hand ... but for what purpose? Is policy a matter of voting > > about it? > > > > BTW, if I remember correctly recent dpkg will add the field > > automatically so perhaps the documentation for the user might become > > less important (or am I wrong here)? > > Hi Andreas, > > changes to the Policy work by consensus, so if out of ~1,000 developers there > is not a single one who supports a proposed change, then nothing will happen, > because a wall of silence is a sign of reprobation. > > This is actually very efficient to make nothing happen. > > As to whether document or not this field, my personal opinion is that Policy's > chapter 5, which documents most fields, should be comprehensive. But perhaps I > over-value the Policy ? Still, I think that it is one asset that Debian > has and other distributions do not. But yes, we can do without if we do not > have the manpower to prevent it from bitrotting. > > Anybody Developer who thinks that 1) the Policy is useful and 2) the Testsuite > field is useful, can participate. What is needed is to read the text below, > verify that it reflects the facts, and if yes, send an email containing > something like “seconded”. IMO the fact that close to 600 packages are already using the field shows quite some support for it to be documented. :) > > > > + <heading><tt>Testsuite</tt></heading> > > > > + > > > > + <p> > > > > + Simple field containing a comma-separated list of values allowing > > > > + test execution environments to discover packages which provide > > > > + tests. Currently, the only defined value is <tt>autopkgtest</tt>. > > > > + </p> > > > > + > > > > + <p> > > > > + This field is automatically added to Debian source control files by > > > > + <prgn>dpkg</prgn><footnote>from version 1.17.11.</footnote> when > > > > + a <file>debian/tests/control</file> file is present in the source > > > > + package. This field may also be used in source package control > > > > + files if needed in other situations. > > > > + </p> Looks good to me. Seconded, FWIW. -- Antonio Terceiro <terceiro@debian.org>
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