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

James McCoy jamessan at debian.org
Sun Oct 12 02:35:41 UTC 2014


On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 07:14:04PM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> I think it would be more user-friendly if sadt did this:
> 
> * If sadt have to make copy of the source tree anyway (i.e., one of the
> tests declares the rw-build-tree restriction), then fix permissions in the
> copy.
> 
> * Otherwise, try chmod+x'ing the test file in the source tree, and if that
> fails, skip the test.
> 
> * Restore the original permissions afterwards.
> 
> Does it sound sane?

Sounds good to me.

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