Re: Accepting uscan patches (Was: Re: [Debian Wiki] Mise à jour de « debian/watch » par PaulWise)
Hi James,
On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 09:46:26PM -0400, James McCoy wrote:
> 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.
Great. Sorry if I sounded impatiently.
> > 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.
May be I need to dive a bit more into this. Hopefully I will find some
time at DebConf. Any kind of help / patches would be welcome for sure.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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