[Pkg-octave-devel] check.m for the forge packages

[Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 10:27:48PM +0100, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> * Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson <ojsbug at gmail.com> [2008-03-19 22:19]:
> 
> > I was looking through the forge packages for a test routine in them, I
> > just did a grep on them and searched for %!test in the .m files and
> > the following packages came up with nothing:
> > 
> > audio, combinatorics, control, econometrics, financial, general, gsl,
> > ident, irsa, miscellaneous, octgpr, odebvp, optiminterp, outliers,
> > parallel, physicalconstants, plot, sockets, special, strings, struct,
> > symbolic, time, vrml, zenity
> > 
> > Now, that is a lot of packages. Should we drop this check.m routine or
> > is there something I am missing in this? (I don't quite understand how
> > the test function in octave works).
> 
> I do not understand which problem you have.  If a package has no %!test
> directive in its .m files, just do not include a debian/check.m for it. Is
> this what you are asking?

Yeh .. exactly :-)

Ok, then I will just drop the check.m file for those packages.

Cheers.

Oli