Martin Pitt writes ("Re: Bug#678359: autopkgtest: Depends: @ only works when building the source"): > Ian Jackson [2012-06-28 1:01 +0100]: > > Thanks for working on this. Looking at it I'm not entirely clear that > > the patch is right. I'm quite tired right now and could be wrong but > > it seems to me that we should be using the tree from the tree argument > > to read_control. This should probably become a new constructor > > argument to Test (and correspondingly doesn't need to be an argument > > to run_tests or indeed to Test.run). > > Where "This" == the list of binaries that are being produced by this > source (as a new ctor argument)?
No, the tree. > > And of course you should use tree.read() not tree.path[1]. > > Ah, thanks! Cf. That was not obvious to me. NP. > > (And, as a matter of style, Python `portability' stuff notwithstanding > > I think the code is clearer if you avoid os.path.join and just say `/' > > when you mean it.) > > It's an old habit of mine, but I'm happy to use / directly. Heh :-). > > Perhaps it would be better to generalise the first half of > > read_control until it can be reused (as a non-class function called > > something like read_stanzas, I guess). > > Will do that. Thanks. Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org