Bug#685787: Praat has serious bug #713597

[Benjamin Drung]

On Sa, 2013-11-02 at 12:03 +0100, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> * Benjamin Drung <bdrung at debian.org> [2013-11-02 00:05]:
> >
> > I have just one recommendation/wish: It would be nice if test cases 
> > could be added for the new feature. The test cases should work offline.
> 
> Would something along the lines of the very simple-minded shell script 
> attached below be appropriate?  Of course, it will need adaptation for 
> the shunit2 framework used in devscripts.

Yes, that's exactly what I hoped for. We already have test/test_uscan,
which contains one online test. This could be converted to an offline
test with your test framework.

> What this script does is (1) create a minimal Debian package directory, 
> containing minimal files debian/{changelog,watch,copyright}, (2) create a 
> minimal repository, containing a tarball (built on the fly), and (3) 
> start an HTTP server that works offline, using the SimpleHTTPServer 
> module of Python.

Maybe this short description could be added to the test case as comment
(for documentation).

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Benjamin Drung
Debian & Ubuntu Developer