Re: Detecting (upcoming) problems using automatic tests

2019-07-13 Thread Julian Andres Klode
On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 10:23:59PM -0300, Chris Lamb wrote: > Hi Julian, > > > I was just thinking that adding deprecation warnings and stuff > > to software is "nice", but the problem with warnings is that they > > tend to not break tests. > > I'm guessing you have a particular package or use-ca

Re: Detecting (upcoming) problems using automatic tests

2019-07-12 Thread Chris Lamb
Hi Simon, > > Hm, although perhaps DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is the prefered place for this > > kind of toggle rather than an environment variable? > > We already have "nocheck" to disable tests, and IMO the default should be > to run tests if we can. Unless I am grossly misunderstanding him, Julian's s

Re: Detecting (upcoming) problems using automatic tests

2019-07-12 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 10:23:59PM -0300, Chris Lamb wrote: > > I feel like it would be nice to come up with a standard environment > > variable to turn warnings into errors, so we can ensure issues are > > fixed and the warnings are actually useful. > Hm, although perhaps DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS

Re: Detecting (upcoming) problems using automatic tests

2019-07-11 Thread Chris Lamb
[adding jak@ to CC as requested; no need to CC me, however...] Hi Julian, > I was just thinking that adding deprecation warnings and stuff > to software is "nice", but the problem with warnings is that they > tend to not break tests. I'm guessing you have a particular package or use-case in mind

Detecting (upcoming) problems using automatic tests

2019-07-11 Thread Julian Andres Klode
Dear fellow developers, I was just thinking that adding deprecation warnings and stuff to software is "nice", but the problem with warnings is that they tend to not break tests. I feel like it would be nice to come up with a standard environment variable to turn warnings into errors, so we can en