Hi Andreas,

On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 4:03 PM Andreas Tille <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Pranav,

> So, one of the binaries in this package is a dictionary for hunspell, but
> > debian/control doesn't list hunspell as a dependency.
>
> Ahhh, nice catch!  Things like this are the reason why we add those tests!
>
> > The dependencies listed are other dictionaries, so the actual program
> isn't
> > installed, and can't be found while testing.
> > I have added it now, and added a few tests as well. Please take a look.
>
> Great work.  I installed the run-unit-tests script and README.test also
> in the binary package.  We do this in the Debian Med team since this
> enables users reproducing the tests on their local machine.
>

Thanks! I'll add these as well from now.

When doing so I realised that the alternative dictionaries de_AT and
> de_CH are fulfilling package dependencies and thus the existence of the
> de_DE dictionary which is used inside the test is not granted on random
> machines (while the autopkgtest environment just picks the first
> dependency and here the test is fine).  I simply added a check what
> actual dictionary is installed and uploaded.
>

Thanks, I didn't notice the OR. I'll keep this in mind too.


> Thanks for your contribution and moreover thanks for proving that you as
> student found a solution which I as mentor did not thought of.  That's
> really great.
>

My pleasure. It was only possible because I learnt about debian/control
through idba.
Learning new things everyday!

Regards,
Pranav
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