[Pkg-octave-devel] New upload of octave-pkg-dev with autopkgtest capabilites

[Rafael Laboissière]

* Sébastien Villemot <sebastien at debian.org> [2017-09-01 12:20]:

> On Fri, Sep 01, 2017 at 10:11:46AM +0200, Rafael Laboissière wrote:
>> With my last commits, the make-octave-forge-debpkg script of the
>> octave-pkg-dev package creates now the debian/test/* files needed for
>> running autopkgtest.
>>
>> Also, in this version, the make-octave-forge-debpkg script only 
>> creates files if they do not exist yet.  This will help us to easily 
>> update all the OF package.
>
> Did you investigate the possibility of adding support for Octave 
> packages into autodep8? That would avoid the need of manually adding 
> the tests in all octave-* packages.

I did not investigate autodep8 in depth, but the current version of the 
make-octave-forge-debpkg script in Git does a similar job.  This avoids 
adding "manually" the debian/tests/* files.  And it works also on already 
debianized packages.

Rafael