[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#844267: Bug#844267: sbuild: Support for blhc

[Paul Wise]

On Mon, 2016-11-14 at 06:40 +0100, Johannes Schauer wrote:

> blhc on the other hand is only applicable for packages that run gcc at some
> point during the build and will never be useful for all the other packages.

I expect blhc will work for packages that use clang too?

> So instead of adding a checker for gcc-based packages today...

sbuild is a tool for building packages, I don't think it should be
running any QA related tools at all, unless maybe someone manually
configured a hook for this.

> How about running check-all-the-things, for example?

See above but I mainly see cats as something to be run manually.

> I do not have much experience with it, but it might be possible to
> find a good way to run it as part of sbuild with the right checks?

Running cats in the post-build tree is a bit rarer and noisier.

> It also supports running blhc.

cats currently unconditionally runs blhc on any build logs that were found.

> I wonder if there exists a heuristic to know which Recommends to be install?

cats will tell you at the end which commands are missing and there is a
WIP branch for automatically installing the right stuff using apt,
unfortunately I won't be merging that because apt build-dep installs
build-essential as well as the requested packages.

https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/check-all-the-things.git/log/?h=wip/install

The heuristics available in cats are currently only filename and mime
type, as well as a way to check that commands are installed properly,
for everything else you would need to insert a grep into the command.

https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/check-all-the-things.git/tree/data/build-logs

-- 
bye,
pabs

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