[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#672756: octave-pkg-dev: testsuite does not handle files under inst/private

[Thomas Weber]

Hi, 

I snipped away some information - we are talking about packages with
tests in the private/ subdirectory.

On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 01:57:49PM +0200, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> Here they are (there may be others not caught by my shell snippet below):
> 
> $ dpkg -L $(apt-file find /private/ | grep .m$ | grep ^octave | cut -f1 -d: | uniq) | grep /private/ | xargs grep "^%\!test" | cut -f1 -d: | uniq
> /usr/share/octave/packages/financial-0.4.0/private/fetch_google.m
> /usr/share/octave/packages/financial-0.4.0/private/fetch_yahoo.m
> /usr/share/octave/packages/geometry-1.4.1/io/private/getSVGPaths_py.m
> /usr/share/octave/packages/geometry-1.4.1/io/deprecated/private/getSVGPaths_py.m
> /usr/share/octave/packages/statistics-1.1.3/private/tbl_delim.m

I looked at financial and I ponder its removal. It seems that both
Authors are inactive and fetch.m has an essentially failing test
commented out since 2008.
Running the tests in private/fetch_google.m gives another error.

My concerns are not about the errors, but rather about the package being
maintained upstream.

	Thomas