Local testing of imports

Jonathan Lange jml at canonical.com
Fri Dec 11 02:06:11 GMT 2009


On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 1:22 AM, James Westby
<james.westby at canonical.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We have a number of packages failing to import, for a variety of reasons.
> It's useful to be able to run the code locally for testing purposes, so
> I've just pushed the driver code to
>
>  lp:~james-w/bzr-builddeb/import-scripts
>

Yay source code!

...
> In addition, I think it would be useful if we could classify the
> list of current failures. Does the LP OOPS system have code to
> match tracebacks? Anyone know of anything else to do this?

I don't think so, but then I'm not really sure what you mean.

> Perhaps
> a weekly email here with counts of classified tracebacks would
> help us reduce the number?
>

Hmm. I think I see. We already do something like this for other
subsystems of Launchpad, but I think that's mostly based on the OOPS
codes, rather than tracebacks.

I'm CCing Diogo & Ursula, who know way more about this than I do.

> Current failures are at
>
>  http://package-import.ubuntu.com/failures/.bzr/failures/
>

Thanks,
jml



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