On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 12:10:32PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > Besides the fact that it was mentioned that there is such a bug I wonder > how bugs for devscripts are really handled. I did opened two bugs, created > a Git repository with patches, described things in Wiki[1] ... and now? As was mentioned in the wiki, we were waiting for Wheezy to release. That's happened and I'm trying to work through the backlog of requested features for devscripts' scripts. This was near the top of my list, but I've been a little strapped for time. It hasn't been forgotten, though. > I was asked several times when all people could profit. I added some > hint given by Benjamin Drung about automatic test cases to the Wiki[2] - > but I do not really feel competent to push this forward (and I wonder > actually why exactly for this patch this test case feature should be > required). Now that we have a test infrastructure, we prefer to have tests accompany new functionality. Unlike the wiki suggests, this requires no knowledge of Perl. The tests are for the UI of the scripts and therefore are written in shell. Cheers, -- James GPG Key: 4096R/331BA3DB 2011-12-05 James McCoy <jamessan@debian.org>
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