Re: LSB woody test results
On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 17:00, Matt Taggart wrote:
> Jeff Licquia writes...
>
> > I have begun running the LSB runtime test suite against woody, with the
> > goal of identifying the current problems with woody. My results will be
> > placed at http://hackers.progeny.com/~licquia/lsb/.
>
> Thanks! I'll add a link from my p.d.o page.
Thank you. I suppose this will mean I'll need a real index.html. :-)
> You don't mention installing the lsb package, did you? If so which
> version?
Yes, the lsb package was in the apt-get line. I installed whatever's
currently in woody, which seems to be 1.1.0-11.
> I plan to setup an apt source for backported lsb packages so
> that people can install the new 1.3 versions of stuff on woody. (but
> separate from any backports needed to fix non-lsb packages, we'll
> need to figure that out at some point)
Excellent. If you need any help, let me know. Otherwise, I'll be
looking forward to its announcement.
> The cpio and tar failures will go away by installing pax. The spec
> requires posix versions of cpio and tar and the test suites will
> happily use pax if available to fulfill that need. This is how other
> distributions have been dealing with it and IMHO is rather stupid
> but oh well. A dependency on pax has recently been added to the lsb
> package to make this easier.
I figured that this would be the case. How do you feel about adding
some of the other dependencies? I notice, for example, that Tcl/Tk and
expect constitute some of the failures.
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