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Re: Package testing



On la, 2007-06-16 at 18:14 +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote:
> (posting from outside, so please CC me)

ACK.

> I was asking for an interface for automated package testing on
> #debian-mentors, but there does not seem to be such an interface. What I
> was thinking about would be some kind of script being invoked before a
> package is installed or upgraded, after it is upgraded or installed and
> after it is removed. Such a script should be allowed to create temporary
> files usable within multiple invocations and should be able to fail with
> a message.

I haven't looked at it myself (yet), but see autopkgtest (the package).
Also, http://vlosuts.alioth.debian.org/ may be relevant during or after
the summer, but it's still in its early days.

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