Patch pilot report, 2013-11-15.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement]

On 11/15/2013 07:28 AM, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Luke Yelavich [2013-11-15 15:03 +1100]:
>> * Received a request from #ubuntu-devel to fix an important package
>> that was broken, due to empty debs other than docs. I wonder whether
>> auto pkg testing should check for this...
>
> Indeed, that's why it's useful to have even the simplest "does my
> program start" smoke test as an autopkgtest, to guard against
> packaging failures like that.
>
Also adding support for autopkgtest to packages with an existing 
testsuite that can run against the package as-installed is relatively 
simple. It consists in adding a test control file, one or several 
scripts to wrap the call to the testsuite and a source record header to 
enable auto-discovery. Then on next upload your package will appear on 
jenkins[1]

For example, in the case of simplejson (which is the package you're 
referring to I suppose) the diff is quite small [2]

For reference the developer guide [3] explains the details.

[1] https://jenkins.qa.ubuntu.com/view/Trusty/view/AutoPkgTest/
[2] 
https://code.launchpad.net/~jibel/ubuntu/trusty/simplejson/enable_autopkgtest/+merge/195380
[3] http://developer.ubuntu.com/packaging/html/auto-pkg-test.html


Jean-Baptiste

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