On Sat, 03 Aug 2024 at 09:28:06 +0200, Niels Thykier wrote:
> Helmut Grohne:
> > Writing tests is a bit non-trivial. Whilst Ubuntu has pioneered an
> > autopkgtest extension for cross architecture testing, this does not seem
> > to be available in Debian. Testing the native case is rather boring in
> > my view. As for manual testing, I verified that :amd64 (natively), :i386
> > (without installing qemu), and :armhf (qemu) work as expected on amd64.
>
> It would be boring to test the native flow, but it would still assert that
> the code minimally works. Therefore, I think we should have that test case.
If we want packages like gobject-introspection to be able to rely on using
the cross-exe-wrapper unconditionally, then it's important that it's
reliable in the trivial case (build arch = host arch), so I think automated
test coverage for that trivial case would still be worth having.
For cross-architecture autopkgtest, reviewing the latest revision of
Ubuntu's autopkgtest MR is on my list, but my list is not short. I spent
some time on reviewing earlier versions of that MR, and my conclusion at
the time was that they weren't ready, but hopefully the latest version is
in a better state.
smcv
