Additional po-debconf check (Was: Re: lintian: r23 - in trunk: checks debian)
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 12:30:57AM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 12:17:08PM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
> [...]
> > I do not have experience with po-debconf (my own package soon to be
> > uploaded failed this test as I didn't use po-debconf yet :)), it'd be
> > great to check for about any mistake that one could do: po-debconf(7)
> > lists quite some requirements and old files to clean up, that could be
> > quite easily checked for.
> >
> > You can either write them yourself, or provide good test-packages (see
> > subdirs of 'testset'), and simply state which tests (even if they are to
> > be written) should fail/succeed on each package.
> >
> > The latter is even preferred, as testpackages ensure that these tests
> > will never be broken again.
>
> I do not understand how to hack 'testset', so here is a (tested) patch
Please simply provide a wrong and a good package, both using the feature
(like, in this case, POTFILES.in), but one doing it right, and one doing
it wrong as you intend to check for. Simply a good and a wrong package
already helps a lot, since I've no experience in how correct po-debconf
packages look like, and especially how incorrect ones look like.
The testset/* directories are all regular packages, possibly you can
update one or more of them to make sure as few packages as possible are
needed for the tests. They work just like normal packages.
Currently none of them use debconf, for example both 'binary' and
'maintainer-scripts' could be enabled to use debconf, one correctly, one
wrongly.
I'll look into your patch soon.
--Jeroen
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