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

Sébastien Villemot sebastien at debian.org
Fri Sep 1 13:03:39 UTC 2017


On Fri, Sep 01, 2017 at 01:15:35PM +0200, Rafael Laboissière wrote:
> * 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.

Maybe I wasn’t clear, but by "manually" I meant that we would need to make a
new upload of all octave-* packages to add autopkgtests to them.

A single upload of autodep8 would achieve the same result. So it may be much
less effort.

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