URL: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?66155>
Summary: test suite should confirm functionality of pdftotext
Group: GNU roff
Submitter: barx
Submitted: Sat 31 Aug 2024 03:31:11 PM CDT
Category: General
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: Test
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Planned Release: None
_______________________________________________________
Follow-up Comments:
-------------------------------------------------------
Date: Sat 31 Aug 2024 03:31:11 PM CDT By: Dave <barx>
Revealed in discovery for bug #66143: two packages, xpdf and poppler, provide
a command named "pdftotext". They have the same basic functionality but use
some incompatible syntax.
The test suite uses this command with the poppler syntax. But, as the xpdf
version was not known to the development team, no verification is done to make
sure the system's installed pdftotext is the expected one.
Branden posits one way to solve this: "having the test scripts check the
program behavior and SKIPping the test if the program doesn't behave the way
we expect." The tests are largely for the benefit of the development team, so
skipping a few tests on some platforms wouldn't be a significant loss.
Alternately, an enterprising contributor with access to the xpdf pdftotext
could submit alternate versions of these tests, which could do one of two
things:
* Call pdftotext differently depending on which version is installed
* Use only syntax common to both versions (if there's enough overlap for that
to work)
_______________________________________________________
Reply to this item at:
<https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?66155>
_______________________________________________
Message sent via Savannah
https://savannah.gnu.org/
signature.asc
Description: PGP signature
