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Re: Dropping 'Testname'?



Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org> writes:

> It's been a while since I wanted to bring this up.

> Is there any objection to dropping the 'Testname' field from the 
> t/tests/*/desc files?

> IIRC the value of Testname _must_ match the name of the directory
> containing the desc file, otherwise runtests fails.  Given this
> requirement, I would prefer to avoid duplicating the name (which in the
> past has caused me troubles when adding new tests) by making runtests
> "guess" it from the name of the directory.

I'm okay with making it an optional field.  I think it should be possible
to specify it if, for some reason, we want to have the test create a
source package with a package name that doesn't match the directory (maybe
because it contains special characters or is 256 characters long or
something).

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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