-=| Damyan Ivanov, 10.09.2013 21:27:49 +0300 |=-
> I want to propose the following two changes in the perl-related
> debhelper support. I am also willing to write the patches, but
> before I try that, I want to discuss this a bit, as it would affect
> all of the group's packages.
>
> * export AUTOMATED_TESTING=1 when invoking the test system
> * run tests in verbose mode
Thanks to everybody commenting on this. Here's a short status update:
Running tests in verbose mode is already requested by gregor in
#714546. I plan for sending the additional patch about
AUTOMATED_TESTING to that bug, retitling it as improvements to perl
module package tests.
I am currently rebuilding all the packages that have debhelper and
perl in their Build-Depends or Build-Depends-Indep fields with
a patched debhelper. That's around 3600 packages. The failing build
logs then need to be checked if they have something to do with the
changes.
As a side effect of all this, there will be quite a few bug reports
about FTBFS and a small framework for rebuilding huge lists of
packages that may be useful during transitions or just for regular QA.
Cheers,
dam
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