Hi, On Freitag, 27. November 2015, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > The debian/tests/ scripts check installabability and desktop selection > using different mechanism from the one used by jenkins. I would say the > purpose of the autopkgtest scripts is to check that the metapackages > work as they should (ie have the corret tasksel hooks in place), while > the jenkins scripts is to check if the dependencies of the metapackages > are installable. They tend to fail both at the same time, but they > might also fail independenty, depending on the error situation. so b includes testing a :) > I still do not quite understand why did you bring in the jenkins test > into this discussion? Can you explain what you had in mind? exactly what I asked, whether you were aware of them, as they seem to do quite the same and it would be a pity if one of them were rather useless, if nobody were watching. I'm glad the jenkins tests are still useful (and happy to add more). cheers, Holger
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