Hello Colin, Thanks for the quick reply.
> While I think it would be good to have autopkgtests, the tests aren't > currently the sorts of things that you can run automatically and get > pass/fail responses; they're more like sample code that one can >experiment > with manually. So this is not particularly easy. Ah, I see, thank you the information. Before creating debian bug, we tried running these test cases locally in a Debian PC, however faced few issues. In order to solve the issues, we made some test code changes and pushed them to a branch[1]. But not sure whether the test code changes [2] are really necessary or Are we missing anything while running test cases? So, we need your help to understand this, so could you please have a look at the changes and provide comments/suggestions. The test cases are passed with the above changes and also added additional files (debian/tests/control, debian/tests/unit) for autopkgtest and confirmed the test cases works fine in the autopkgtest environment[3]. Please note all the test code changes are pushed in a single commit as of now, we will revise this further. [1] https://salsa.debian.org/kshivanand/debconf/-/commits/shiva/update-test-code [2] https://salsa.debian.org/kshivanand/debconf/-/commit/4442da5f7bf50b1a56c4dd443d8847a3bddceb54 [3] https://salsa.debian.org/kshivanand/debconf/-/commit/6b2eb85120442a4970042d3637d5e5848498ac04 Thanks & Regards Shivanand K -----Original Message----- From: Colin Watson <[email protected]> Sent: 15 August 2025 13:31 To: kunijadar shivanand(ＴＳＩＰ DITC_DIT-OST) <[email protected]>; [email protected] Cc: [email protected]; dinesh kumar(ＴＳＩＰ DITC_DIT-OST) <[email protected]>; balakumar adithya(ＴＳＩＰ ＤＩＴＣ＿ＤＩＴ-ＯＳＴ) <[email protected]>; sanglikar zaiba(ＴＳＩＰ TEUR) <[email protected]>; sahithi akunuri(ＴＳＩＰ TEUR) <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Bug#1111143: Request to enable to autopkgtest On Fri, Aug 15, 2025 at 05:59:26AM +0000, [email protected] wrote: > I noticed that there are some tests[1] defined for the package in the > debian salsa repository. > > would it be possible to enable autopkgtest and run these test cases as > part of autopkgtest? > > if possible, could you please consider the same. While I think it would be good to have autopkgtests, the tests aren't currently the sorts of things that you can run automatically and get pass/fail responses; they're more like sample code that one can experiment with manually. So this is not particularly easy. -- Colin Watson (he/him) [[email protected]]
