On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 02:05 +0200, Jiří Paleček wrote:- -commands- and -kernel- are not co-installable - many tests can't be ran from ltpmenu (eg. math tests)/don't have necessary files packaged (eg. nfs)/simply don't work (eg. *chown) [1] - some tests write to /usrAre these regressions?
The first one is, the others aren't.
Otherwise, if these problems were present in the 20060918 package aswell, why don't you file a bug against the ltp package so we'll fix them insubsequent updates?
(typos corrected)Well, when I first tried to use ltp, there were the other bugs that made ltp totally nonfunctional, and these were already filed. So I started my own packaging and found out there were many other bugs. I didn't file these because there wasn't any response on the old bugs, and also because I used a newer version of upstream. Subsequently, I fixed at least some of these bugs, which meant creating 28 patches changing ~140 files (and more in the debian directory that I don't manage by patches). And given that amount of work, I think the normal Debian workflow (file a bug -> wait a month for an updated version (1 month is actually pretty good response time for a <serious severity bug) -> find out it still has other bugs) is simply not gonna work. I have some ~50 bugs open, and these are mostly bugs I cannot fix. So I'm not gonna litter my bug page with another ~10 for ltp that are actually easier for me to fix than file bugreport about, sorry.
Regards
Jiri Palecek