On Tuesday, December 21, 2021 10:22:49 A.M. CST Nilesh Patra wrote: > On 12/21/21 9:00 PM, Pierre Gruet wrote: > > On 21/12/2021 14:33, Lance Lin wrote: > >> Debian Medical Team, > >> > >> I have started looking at adding autopkgtest suites for a variety of > >> packages. Two of the packages (hinge, pique) require very large data > >> sets to run their included examples.>> > >>The sizes are several GB.
> I would second that. If possible, ask upstream for sensible data size that > is manageable under a few MBs. I understand the motivation here -- it is unwieldy and unusual to have GB- sized test data. Irrespective of what I write below, it is always nice to have a "small" smoke-test data set so I support asking upstream in that spirit. It may be the case that upstream is able to get the same code coverage out of a smaller test data set. Or maybe they can get a reduced-but-still-useful coverage. But in the days of "big data", it might be the case that testing the software really requires a big dataset. What are Debian's options for this? -Steve