Package: autopkgtest Version: 2.10 Severity: wishlist Dear Martin, Ian and everybody,
I like autopkgtest, but the need to use either a virtual system or treat the local system as if it were virtual raises the bar quite high. I have some simple tests that do nothing else than running the upstream tests, which themselves are very simple. I would be very happy if there were a command that would take a source package as input and do nothing else than running the tests declared in debian/tests/control. More in particular, my problem is that the command “adt-run package.dsc --- null” needs root access and is very invasive on the local system, while I only want to run the tests on binary packages that I have freshly installed, on my local system as it is. Having such a facility would tremendously boost my capacity to write autopkgtests that do not fail. As you have noticed in some reports that you made on packages maintained by the Debian Med team, currently it takes a couple of round trips to figure it out, and on my side it is caused by the strong difficulty to test the tests in a trivial way. Have a nice week-end, and thanks for your work on autopkgtest ! -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
