Your message dated Wed, 28 May 2014 17:34:47 +0200
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has caused the Debian Bug report #748796,
regarding piuparts: should not use dist-upgrade to check for a single package
upgrade
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Source: piuparts
Severity: important
http://bugs.debian.org/726799 shows that, while using dist-upgrade may
be useful and can reveal problems, it does not test *just* the package
upgrade it claims to be testing (sounds obvious, but well... ;).
In this case, a number of hours have been wasted hunting for a
seemingly-unreproducible bug, that was in fact perfectly reproducible,
but just wrongly characterized.
So:
* we surely need a better test procedure for package ugrades
=> what's wrong with just "apt-get install $PACKAGE/sid" ?
* we do need a test procedure that would reproducibly find this kind
of bugs
What I'm thinking of is something like a tool that would start with
a large installation of packages from testing, and which would
test-upgrade each one of those packages separately.
Similarly, triggers could be tested from a similar setup (both for
testing and sid).
(and probably a ton of other tests like that)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (101,
'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.13-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
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Hi,
I'm closing this as discussed in
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=748796#10
and still would be happy to include patches to include this feature.
(Just please see http://blog.liw.fi/posts/wishlist-bugs/ for why I don't want
to keep a
wishlist bug open for a feature I think it's hardly useful.)
cheers,
Holger
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