On Sun, Sep 06, 2020 at 12:31:22AM +0100, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: > Hi Paul, > > On Sat, Sep 5, 2020 at 1:56 AM Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> wrote: > > > > On Fri, Sep 4, 2020 at 6:53 PM Sudip Mukherjee wrote: > > > > > If the test done in the autopkgtest does not provide significant test > > > coverage then it should be marked with "Restrictions: superficial". > > ... > > > I am still trying to figure out a generalized method to find them but > > > an initial script has found 83 packages. Attached is the dd-list. > > > > This sort of thing seems like something that will be an ongoing > > problem so a more efficient way to solve it would be a lintian > > warning, which should hopefully help prevent new occurrences. OTOH it > > would be pretty hard to automatically check for these without a robust > > shell parser. Perhaps morbig from Project CoLiS could be used for the > > shell parsing and then a script could process the morbig output. > > ShellCheck might be another option but it doesn't yet output parse > > trees. > > We were hoping that this check can be added in lintian, but looking at > #932862 it seems you have already requested that. :) > I will have a look at morbig and see if I can use that in my script. > Thanks for the idea. FWIW I don't think that opening bugs about the packages we already know are using silly tests without "Restrictions: superficial" needs to wait for that. Thanks for your work on this.
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