[Pkg-octave-devel] Running Octave tests under xvfb

[Sébastien Villemot]

On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 09:36:28AM +0200, Rafael Laboissière wrote:
> Running the unit tests in some Octave add-on packages fails because some of
> them use graphical output (e.g. [1]).  One possible way to fix the problem
> is by running the tests under xvfb.  I did the changes to the Octave support
> of autodep8, which are now in the branch called octave-xvfb [2].  For your
> convenience, I am attaching below the diff between branches master and
> octave-xvfb.

I recently had to disable the use of xvfb in the octave testsuite, because it
was causing crashes at build time (related to the move to Qt 5) [1].

Hence I think that simply adding gnuplot-nox as a test dependency would be a
better option (also because it drags less additional dependencies); but I did
not verify that it is enough to fix test failures, so I may be missing something.

[1] https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-octave/octave.git/commit/?id=22c305156ac57a9dc3c928d1a6eba77ce6023516

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