On 08/03/07 at 08:02 +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 07/03/07 at 23:07 +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > > > I would really like to see that happening at the beginning of the lenny > > > release cycle. Packages that prompt without using debconf make it > > > unnecessary difficult to test them using piuparts. > > > > > > Looking at my piuparts results (testing packages in etch), most packages > > > that prompt the user already do that through debconf, so it would not > > > result in more than 50 or 100 bugs (and that's the worst case scenario). > > > > Hmmm, that many? > > > > [..] > > > > I'm still puzzled by the number of package you announce, Lucas. > > Well, that's really the worst case scenario. I would have to run > piuparts again to get better numbers, since: > > - I'm running piuparts on etch, not sid, and packages > in-sid-but-not-in-etch are likely to be less well maintained, so > changes are higher that they do bad stuff with /dev/tty > > - I use a workaround (make /dev/tty a copy of /dev/null) so that most > packages reading /dev/tty don't block during the test > > I'll try to give a better estimation soon. Indeed, there are probably less packages to fix that I thought. Christian, would you be interested in pushing a lenny release goal about this? -- | Lucas Nussbaum | lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: lucas@nussbaum.fr GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F |
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