Re: Python-pysam for unstable?
Hi, Charles,
On الأحد 12 تـمـوز 2015 04:05, Charles Plessy wrote:
for some packages it is doable to run the tests at build time and also
distribute them in a binary package that is used for the autopkgtests and for
users to troubleshoot their own installations. See samtools for example.
In other cases (Perl packages, R packages), the tests seem to be too much part
of the build system to be easily packaged exhaustively in a stand-alone way.
Or it is just that I never found how... For python-pysam, I think that I could
start the packaged test suite in the past. Sorry that I did not have time to
follow your work in details; is this package is now broken then it makes sense
to remove it, otherwise I would argue that it is useful and should be kept.
Even if it is broken as far as autopkgtest is concerned, it could still
have some utility for the user. Then, the independent tests/control file
could be used for autopkgtest and the python-pysam-tests package can
left for the user.
Lastly, sometimes for some pacakges (for instance bedtools), the regression
tests never passed fully on Debian. This makes them less useful, but at least,
they can be monitored to spot regressions, where even more tests would fail.
That is interesting. For bedtools, is that a problem with the test suite
or with the packaging? I didn't think that a package could be uploaded
to somewhere besides experimental while it is known to be failing tests.
Regards,
Afif
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