[Pkg-octave-devel] Running Octave tests under xvfb

[Rafael Laboissière]

* Rafael Laboissière <rafael at debian.org> [2017-10-17 22:38]:

> * Sébastien Villemot <sebastien at debian.org> [2017-10-17 19:13]:
>>
>> Hence I think that simply adding gnuplot-nox as a test dependency 
>> would be a better option (also because it drags less additional 
>> dependencies); but I did not verify that it is enough to fix test 
>> failures, so I may be missing something.
>
> This is probably a better solution, but it has the same drawbacks as 
> the xvfb solution, as pointed out by Antonio in the other message, 
> namely that it will add gnuplot-nox dependency to all packages (the 
> majority of them do not need it) and that it will need an upload of 
> autodep8 to stretch-backports in order to have the tests working on 
> ci.d.o.

It worked! 
https://ci.debian.net/data/autopkgtest/unstable/amd64/o/octave-stk/20171022_123455/log.gz

Rafael