Bug#749729: [sadt] please skip non-executable tests

James McCoy jamessan at debian.org
Fri Oct 10 02:09:23 UTC 2014


Hi Jakub,

On Sat, Jun 07, 2014 at 08:54:10PM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> * Nicolas Boulenguez <nicolas at debian.org>, 2014-05-30, 23:05:
> >I suggest that sadt skips non executable tests with a warning and
> >documents this behaviour (as it does with missing dependencies), or
> >displays a warning when modifying the permissions. It took me some time to
> >find who was interfering with my version control system.
> 
> Thanks, that's a pretty strong argument that chmod'ing tests is not a good
> idea, at least not by default.

Do you intend to make some changes for this soon?

Cheers,
-- 
James
GPG Key: 4096R/331BA3DB 2011-12-05 James McCoy <jamessan at debian.org>
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