[Pkg-octave-devel] more detail on test failures in buildd logs

[Sébastien Villemot]

Le samedi 26 mars 2016 à 10:33 +0100, Rafael Laboissière a écrit :
> * Mike Miller <mtmiller at debian.org> [2016-03-25 16:02]:
> 
> > 
> > I wonder if the DOG thinks it would be desirable, and if so,
> > possible, 
> > to see the full test outputs for failing tests and have them
> > available 
> > either as part of the package or on a publicly available web site.
> I vote for both options: having it in /usr/share/doc and in a web
> site.

I think shipping the full test results in /usr/share/doc has the
problem of making the build not necessarily reproducible. So we should
avoid that.

> > I discussed with upstream whether it would be possible to parse
> > the 
> > fntests.log file to extract only the failures, which could be
> > written to 
> > a file or to stdout. I now have an awk script that does this to
> > some 
> > extent, still needs some improvement.
> > 
> > Any other clever ideas?
> > 
> > If not I will likely work on refining this awk script and see if I
> > can 
> > get it merged upstream. The goal there would be for a 'make check'
> > with 
> > --disable-silent-rules to automatically dump test failures to
> > stdout.
> This seems to be a sound way to do it.

Yes, indeed. Thanks for working on this.

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