On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 02:59:22PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 11:41:27AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > In Ubuntu, we have applied the attached patch to include autopkgtests in the > > coreutils package. As a core package, it is useful to have autopkgtests in > > order to detect regressions (however unlikely) introduced by the > > dependencies of coreutils.
> > Would you consider including this patch in Debian? > Maybe after buster, but probably no. For years I did have coreutils run > tests on build, but test failures were far too common due to false positives > caused by idiosyncratic autobuilder configurations. Ok, fair. FWIW the autopkgtest that's been defined here appears to be fairly reliable in Ubuntu: http://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/packages/coreutils -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer https://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org
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