[Pkg-octave-devel] Open ToDos for Wheezy

[Thomas Weber]

On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 01:45:40PM +0200, Paul Dreik wrote:
> I agree there has not been any real development, but it is still useful.
> I do not see the problem, as the package works as intended as far as I
> know.

The problem here is the word "know". There are two ways to get some
assurance that a package works (at least somewhat):

	1) You use it routinely.
	2) It comes with tests.

I (and probably nobody else on this list) use the sockets package, so 1)
is out. And for 2), somebody needs to step up and convert the existing
tests into something that can be run at build time (the easiest way is
probably to convert the tests into using Octave's test harness).

I left out option 3) which goes along the lines of "just upload it and
give a damn about the rest", which seems to be quite popular elsewhere.

So, I don't mind re-introducing the package, but please: convert the
tests first so that there is at least some chance that errors are
caught.

Thanks
	Thomas