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

[Rafael Laboissière]

* Sébastien Villemot <sebastien at debian.org> [2017-09-01 22:25]:

> On Fri, Sep 01, 2017 at 10:19:49PM +0200, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
>>
>> Fantastic! I have told the news to terceiro on #debian-qa, let’s wait for his 
>> feedback.
>
> Here is the discussion I just had with him:
>
>  22:05 < sebastien> terceiro: support for octave-* in autodep8 has just been committed on a new octave branch by Rafael Laboissière https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/autodep8.git/commit/?h=octave
>  22:19 < terceiro> sebastien: "Try to select only the packages from Octave-Forge that are maintained by the Debian Octave Group" seems wrong
>  22:19 < terceiro> it should support all octave packages, not an arbitrary subset
>  22:20 < terceiro> and `Test-Command: debian/rules check-pkg` also looks wrong, as autopkgtest is intended to test the *installed* package and not the source package
>  22:21 < sebastien> the explanation to both of your remarks is that the test infrastructure is currently in octave-pkg-dev (which is our cdbs add-on)
>  22:21 < sebastien> so 1) we do not test packages that do not rely on that helper (though the description should be improved)
>  22:22 < sebastien> and 2) this actually tests the installed package (but through debian/rules because it is cdbs)
>  22:23 < sebastien> but maybe we should have that discussion by email, putting Rafael in the loop
>  22:23 < sebastien> should we open a bug against autodep8?
>  22:23 < terceiro> sebastien: sure
>  22:24 < terceiro> attach the patch to it so the bug is self-contained
>
> So I suggest that you open a wishlist bug, with a possibly updated patch.

Thanks for that.

I have sent a message to the autopkgtest-devel mailing list:

http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/autopkgtest-devel/2017-September/002472.html

in which I asked for advice/help regarding examples.md and 
test/octave_test.sh.  Let us see how they will reply me.  Afterwards, I 
can prepare the updated patch and the bug report.

Rafael