Re: [Pkg-octave-devel] New upload of octave-pkg-dev with autopkgtest capabilites

[Rafael Laboissière <rafael@debian.org>]

* Sébastien Villemot <sebastien@debian.org> [2017-09-01 15:03]:

> On Fri, Sep 01, 2017 at 01:15:35PM +0200, Rafael Laboissière wrote:
> > * Sébastien Villemot <sebastien@debian.org> [2017-09-01 12:20]:
> >
> > I did not investigate autodep8 in depth, but the current version of the 
> > make-octave-forge-debpkg script in Git does a similar job.  This avoids 
> > adding "manually" the debian/tests/* files.  And it works also on already 
> > debianized packages.
>
> Maybe I wasn’t clear, but by "manually" I meant that we would need to make a 
> new upload of all octave-* packages to add autopkgtests to them.
>
> A single upload of autodep8 would achieve the same result. So it may be much 
> less effort.

According to the man page of autodep8, this tool just "prints the 
suggested contents of debian/tests/control to the standard output". This 
is pretty similar to what the current version of 
make-octave-forge-debpkg in the Git repository does.

At any rate, new uploads of the octave-* packages would be needed anyway 
if we used an Octave-aware version of autodep8.

I am perhaps missing something here.  Did you mean another tool that is 
associated with autodep8 that can better automate the process?

Rafael