[Pkg-octave-devel] [RFU] octave-ltlfat 1.4.4-1

[Sébastien Villemot]

Le mardi 06 mai 2014 à 00:50 +0200, Rafael Laboissiere a écrit :
> The package is prepared in Git and its ITP is Bug#747039.
> 
> This package is quite large and complex.  It seems to work for me, but I 
> did not test it thoroughly.  Unfortunately, the upstream package has no 
> unit test suite.  I sort of compensated that by exercising the 
> insts/demos/demo_*.m files in debian/check.m.  It is better than doing no 
> tests, event though the results are not really verified.

I would prefer not to be in the Uploaders field of the package. That
field should contain the list of people doing the usual maintenance
work, and I will obviously not do it for octave-ltlfat. I am however
willing to fix RC bugs or handle transitions involving this package, but
I don't need to be in the Uploaders field, I can do "Team uploads" since
the package is maintained by the DOG.

Ideally I think you should be in the Uploaders field, what do you think?

I will also probably remove myself from other DOG packages which I don't
specifically care about. Again, that won't prevent me from uploading
these packages from time to time, for RC bugs or during transitions. But
this is another story.

> Many of those demo files produce plots, which does not work in the 
> absence of a graphics system.  I got around this by redefining the 
> figure() function in check.m, which is a suboptimal solution.  I am 
> wondering whether it is appropriate to change octave-pkg.mk such that the 
> tests would be run under xvfb-run.  Do you think it is a good idea?

That sounds like a good idea, and could also be used by matlab2tizk.
Ideally the use of xvfb-run should be optional. Maybe that could be
triggered using some Makefile variable?

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