Re: Proposal for a new test suite
Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org> writes:
> It is my opinion that the current test suite doesn't scale very well and
> I would like to supplement (and in the long run replace) it with
> something better.
I looked this over and it looks great. I wholeheartedly approve of this
and agree with your analysis of the problems with the existing test
suite.
The only major concern that I have is that by building more packages
during the test, it will make the test suite even slower. It's already
slow enough that it delays development somewhat.
> * It supports building .orig.tar.gz files on-the-fly,
> making it easier to create non-native test packages.
This is really cool.
> Status of this code:
> * It builds a list of test, creates the packages for them,
> builds them and runs lintian.
> * It also support the literal comparison method (i.e. cmp -s)
> between two tag files as done by the old test suite.
> * It does not yet use the description files to refine this
> comparison.
Were you thinking about moving the sed thing into the description files?
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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