Re: Please test gzip -9n - related to dpkg with multiarch support

2012-02-08 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:56:06 -0800 Russ Allbery wrote: > There are two main cases for libfoo-dev that I think cover most such > packages: > > 1. The header files are architecture-dependent (definitions of data member >sizes, for example), in which case they need to be arch-qualified >any

Re: Please test gzip -9n - related to dpkg with multiarch support

2012-02-08 Thread Russ Allbery
Roger Leigh writes: > On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 11:47:19AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Also true. In fact, it's something that's been bothering me for a long >> time with linked doc directories. I'd like to prohibit them in more >> cases so that we get the binNMU changelogs on disk. > Relating

Re: Please test gzip -9n - related to dpkg with multiarch support

2012-02-08 Thread Russ Allbery
Guillem Jover writes: > Let's assume compressor (gzip/bzip2/xz/etc) version M gets uploaded to > sid generating a reproducible output across all current architectures. > Time passes, compressor version N (and even O and P and Q etc) gets > uploaded, which starts producing new ouput (on each of th

Re: Please test gzip -9n - related to dpkg with multiarch support

2012-02-08 Thread Guillem Jover
new version available. Now, if there is a > > binNMU after a new version of gzip is uploaded, yes it is probably > > wise to rebuild all architectures if the package includes a > > Multi-Arch: same library. How often does that happen? > > Isn't this something that we

Re: Please test gzip -9n - related to dpkg with multiarch support

2012-02-08 Thread Russ Allbery
Riku Voipio writes: > On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 05:56:11PM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: >> The same principle that applies to all dpkg output to avoid ambiguity >> would apply everywhere, whenever there's a “Multi-Arch: same” package >> name that needs to be unambiguous, it just always gets arch-qua

Re: Please test gzip -9n - related to dpkg with multiarch support

2012-02-08 Thread Roger Leigh
On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 11:47:19AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Guillem Jover writes: > > On Wed, 2012-02-08 at 13:19:17 +, Ian Jackson wrote: > > And while the binNMU changelog issues might seem like a corner case, > > it's just a symptom of something that's not quite right. > > Also true.

Re: Please test gzip -9n - related to dpkg with multiarch support

2012-02-08 Thread Russ Allbery
Guillem Jover writes: > On Wed, 2012-02-08 at 13:19:17 +, Ian Jackson wrote: >> Well, it does mean that you might be lacking important information >> because the other changelog wouldn't be present on the system. > While the implicit Replaces seems the easy way out, it just seems even > more

Re: Please test gzip -9n - related to dpkg with multiarch support

2012-02-08 Thread Don Armstrong
is uploaded, yes it is probably > wise to rebuild all architectures if the package includes a > Multi-Arch: same library. How often does that happen? Isn't this something that we can test for in the archive, and require rebuilds for all affected packages before entering testing? [Multi-A

Re: Please test gzip -9n - related to dpkg with multiarch support

2012-02-08 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 8 Feb 2012 17:13:20 +0100 Guillem Jover wrote: > On Wed, 2012-02-08 at 13:19:17 +, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Well, it does mean that you might be lacking important information > > because the other changelog wouldn't be present on the system. > Instead of this, I'd rather see the shared

Re: Endianness of data files in MultiArch (was: Please test gzip -9n - related to dpkg with multiarch support)

2012-02-08 Thread Aron Xu
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 01:35, Simon McVittie wrote: > On 08/02/12 17:22, Aron Xu wrote: >> Some packages come with data files that endianness matters, and many >> of them are large enough to split into a separate arch:all package if >> endianness were not something to care about. AFAIK some mainta

Re: Please test gzip -9n - related to dpkg with multiarch support

2012-02-08 Thread Riku Voipio
On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 05:56:11PM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Wed, 2012-02-08 at 17:29:22 +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > > If you remove the shared files approach, how do you handle files like > > lintian overrides, reportbug presubj and scripts, etc. ? > > The same principle that applies to al

Re: Endianness of data files in MultiArch (was: Please test gzip -9n - related to dpkg with multiarch support)

2012-02-08 Thread Simon McVittie
On 08/02/12 17:22, Aron Xu wrote: > Some packages come with data files that endianness matters, and many > of them are large enough to split into a separate arch:all package if > endianness were not something to care about. AFAIK some maintainers > are not aware of endianness issues in their packag

Re: Please test gzip -9n - related to dpkg with multiarch support

2012-02-08 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Ian Jackson wrote: > Another relevant question is whether there are other files that are > shared, and which don't want to move, besides ones in /usr/share/doc. One example is header files in /usr/include, from -dev packages. In the simple examples I've seen, putting them in /usr/include/, works

Endianness of data files in MultiArch (was: Please test gzip -9n - related to dpkg with multiarch support)

2012-02-08 Thread Aron Xu
I want to speak up about endianness of data files, this is a suggestion but not a flaw which I just want to discover the possibility of improvement to current status by the chance of implementing Multi-Arch in Debian. Some packages come with data files that endianness matters, and many of them are

Re: Please test gzip -9n - related to dpkg with multiarch support

2012-02-08 Thread Ian Jackson
Guillem Jover writes ("Re: Please test gzip -9n - related to dpkg with multiarch support"): > On Wed, 2012-02-08 at 13:19:17 +, Ian Jackson wrote: > > One thing which no-one yet seems to have suggested is to have > > multiarch:same packages put the changel

Re: Please test gzip -9n - related to dpkg with multiarch support

2012-02-08 Thread Guillem Jover
On Wed, 2012-02-08 at 17:29:22 +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > If you remove the shared files approach, how do you handle files like > lintian overrides, reportbug presubj and scripts, etc. ? The same principle that applies to all dpkg output to avoid ambiguity would apply everywhere, whenever there's

Re: Please test gzip -9n - related to dpkg with multiarch support

2012-02-08 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 05:13:20PM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Wed, 2012-02-08 at 13:19:17 +, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Well, it does mean that you might be lacking important information > > because the other changelog wouldn't be present on the system. > > While the implicit Replaces seems

Re: Please test gzip -9n - related to dpkg with multiarch support

2012-02-08 Thread Guillem Jover
On Wed, 2012-02-08 at 13:19:17 +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Well, it does mean that you might be lacking important information > because the other changelog wouldn't be present on the system. While the implicit Replaces seems the easy way out, it just seems even more fragile than the shared files a

Re: Please test gzip -9n - related to dpkg with multiarch support

2012-02-08 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 8 Feb 2012 15:06:46 +0100 Adam Borowski wrote: > On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 02:14:22PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > For those not subscribed to that bug, how to reproduce[1] and possible > > fix[2] are available now. There might be other places where buffers are > > reused, I only spent

Re: Please test gzip -9n - related to dpkg with multiarch support

2012-02-08 Thread brian m. carlson
On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 11:33:37AM +0100, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > On the other hand most uncompressors silently ignore unexpected > data after end of file markers. So the compressed file is even more > easily tempered with (especially as debsums only stores md5 without > size and md5 does not inc

Re: Please test gzip -9n - related to dpkg with multiarch support

2012-02-08 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 8 Feb 2012 14:14:22 +0100 Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Neil Williams (07/02/2012): > > I'd like to ask for some help with a bug which is tripping up my tests > > with the multiarch-aware dpkg from experimental - #647522 - > > non-deterministic behaviour of gzip -9n. > > For those not subscr

Re: Please test gzip -9n - related to dpkg with multiarch support

2012-02-08 Thread Josh Triplett
Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 10:04:04PM +, Neil Williams wrote: > > Maybe the way to solve this properly is to remove compression from the > > uniqueness check - compare the contents of the file in memory after > > decompression. Yes, it will take longer but it is only neede

Re: Please test gzip -9n - related to dpkg with multiarch support

2012-02-08 Thread Adam Borowski
On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 02:14:22PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > For those not subscribed to that bug, how to reproduce[1] and possible > fix[2] are available now. There might be other places where buffers are > reused, I only spent a few minutes on this during my lunch break. > > 2. http://bug

Re: Please test gzip -9n - related to dpkg with multiarch support

2012-02-08 Thread Ian Jackson
Russ Allbery writes ("Re: Please test gzip -9n - related to dpkg with multiarch support"): > Another possible solution is to just give any package an implicit Replaces > (possibly constrained to /usr/share/doc) on any other package with the > same name and version and a dif

Re: Please test gzip -9n - related to dpkg with multiarch support

2012-02-08 Thread Cyril Brulebois
(Dropping everyone but dd@.) Wouter Verhelst (08/02/2012): > As an additional benefit, this will also allow those among us (like me) > who hate having to use 'gunzip -c /usr/share/doc/foo/bar.pdf.gz > > /tmp/bar.pdf; xpdf /tmp/bar.pdf' in order to be able to read some > documentation, to just req

Re: Please test gzip -9n - related to dpkg with multiarch support

2012-02-08 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Neil Williams (07/02/2012): > I'd like to ask for some help with a bug which is tripping up my tests > with the multiarch-aware dpkg from experimental - #647522 - > non-deterministic behaviour of gzip -9n. For those not subscribed to that bug, how to reproduce[1] and possible fix[2] are available

Re: Please test gzip -9n - related to dpkg with multiarch support

2012-02-08 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 10:04:04PM +, Neil Williams wrote: > Maybe the way to solve this properly is to remove compression from the > uniqueness check - compare the contents of the file in memory after > decompression. Yes, it will take longer but it is only needed when the > md5sum (which alre

Re: Please test gzip -9n - related to dpkg with multiarch support

2012-02-08 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2012-02-08 at 07:57 +, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 10:49:23PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > But it's worse than this: even if dpkg decompresses before comparing, > > debsums won't (and mustn't, for backward compatibility). So it's > > potentially necessary to fix

Re: Please test gzip -9n - related to dpkg with multiarch support

2012-02-08 Thread Simon McVittie
On 08/02/12 10:22, Neil Williams wrote: > Nothing in /usr/share/ matters for a cross package created by > dpkg-cross (with the possible exception of /usr/share/pkg-config > which was always anachronistic). I'd understood that /usr/share/pkgconfig should be used for the sort of packages that would

Re: Please test gzip -9n - related to dpkg with multiarch support

2012-02-08 Thread Daniel Baumann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/07/2012 11:04 PM, Neil Williams wrote: > I'm not convinced that this is fixable at the gzip level, nor is it > likely to be fixable by the trauma of changing from gzip to > something else. while the original point of not considering compressors

Re: Please test gzip -9n - related to dpkg with multiarch support

2012-02-08 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 8 Feb 2012 21:54:30 +1100 Russell Coker wrote: > On Wed, 8 Feb 2012, Neil Williams wrote: > > > Expecting that the compression gives the smallest file every time is > > > reasonable. > > > > By a single byte - I've not seen file size changes beyond that range. > > It's a matter of pri

Re: Please test gzip -9n - related to dpkg with multiarch support

2012-02-08 Thread Russell Coker
On Wed, 8 Feb 2012, Neil Williams wrote: > > Expecting that the compression gives the smallest file every time is > > reasonable. > > By a single byte - I've not seen file size changes beyond that range. It's a matter of principle. A compression program is supposed to reliably compress data.

Re: Please test gzip -9n - related to dpkg with multiarch support

2012-02-08 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Lars Wirzenius [120208 08:58]: > On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 10:49:23PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > But it's worse than this: even if dpkg decompresses before comparing, > > debsums won't (and mustn't, for backward compatibility). So it's > > potentially necessary to fix up the md5sums file for

Re: Please test gzip -9n - related to dpkg with multiarch support

2012-02-08 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 8 Feb 2012 02:52:52 +0200 Riku Voipio wrote: > If it turns out not reasonable to expect the compression results to be > identical, we should probably look into using dpkg --path-exclude= with > /usr/share/{doc,man,info}/* when installing foreign-architecture packages. That would be a sui

Re: Please test gzip -9n - related to dpkg with multiarch support

2012-02-08 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 8 Feb 2012 12:05:44 +1100 Russell Coker wrote: > On Wed, 8 Feb 2012, Riku Voipio wrote: > > If it turns out not reasonable to expect the compression results to be > > identical > > It was reported that sometimes the size differs. Surely if nothing else > having gzip sometimes produce a

Re: Please test gzip -9n - related to dpkg with multiarch support

2012-02-07 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 10:49:23PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > But it's worse than this: even if dpkg decompresses before comparing, > debsums won't (and mustn't, for backward compatibility). So it's > potentially necessary to fix up the md5sums file for a package > installed for multiple archit

Re: Please test gzip -9n - related to dpkg with multiarch support

2012-02-07 Thread Russ Allbery
Riku Voipio writes: > If it turns out not reasonable to expect the compression results to be > identical, we should probably look into using dpkg --path-exclude= with > /usr/share/{doc,man,info}/* when installing foreign-architecture packages. I believe the only packages that pose a problem are

Re: Please test gzip -9n - related to dpkg with multiarch support

2012-02-07 Thread Russell Coker
On Wed, 8 Feb 2012, Riku Voipio wrote: > If it turns out not reasonable to expect the compression results to be > identical It was reported that sometimes the size differs. Surely if nothing else having gzip sometimes produce an unnecessarily large file is a bug! Expecting that the compression

Re: Please test gzip -9n - related to dpkg with multiarch support

2012-02-07 Thread Riku Voipio
On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 10:13:01PM +, Neil Williams wrote: > On Tue, 7 Feb 2012 14:01:57 -0800 > Steve Langasek wrote: > > At this stage, I have no reason to think that's not achievable, though no > > one seems to have dived very deep into the bug yet. And whether gzip > > upstream agrees thi

Re: Please test gzip -9n - related to dpkg with multiarch support

2012-02-07 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 07 Feb 2012, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > Maybe you can switch to sha256 and add the new functionality while at > > it? Detect which mode (md5sum raw, sha256 uncompress) by the size of > > the hash. Old debsums won't work with the new files, but is that

Re: Please test gzip -9n - related to dpkg with multiarch support

2012-02-07 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Maybe you can switch to sha256 and add the new functionality while at > it? Detect which mode (md5sum raw, sha256 uncompress) by the size of > the hash. Old debsums won't work with the new files, but is that really > a problem? That's what stable updates and

Re: Please test gzip -9n - related to dpkg with multiarch support

2012-02-07 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 07 Feb 2012, Ben Hutchings wrote: > But it's worse than this: even if dpkg decompresses before comparing, > debsums won't (and mustn't, for backward compatibility). So it's Maybe you can switch to sha256 and add the new functionality while at it? Detect which mode (md5sum raw, sha256 unc

Re: Please test gzip -9n - related to dpkg with multiarch support

2012-02-07 Thread Russ Allbery
Neil Williams writes: > Maybe the way to solve this properly is to remove compression from the > uniqueness check - compare the contents of the file in memory after > decompression. Yes, it will take longer but it is only needed when the > md5sum (which already exists) doesn't match. Another pos

Re: Please test gzip -9n - related to dpkg with multiarch support

2012-02-07 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 10:04:04PM +, Neil Williams wrote: > On Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:11:16 +0100 > Michael Biebl wrote: > > > On 07.02.2012 18:07, Joey Hess wrote: > > > Neil Williams wrote: > > >> I'd like to ask for some help with a bug which is tripping up my tests > > >> with the multiarch

Re: Please test gzip -9n - related to dpkg with multiarch support

2012-02-07 Thread Neil Williams
On Tue, 7 Feb 2012 14:01:57 -0800 Steve Langasek wrote: > There are various ways to meet both the multiarch constraints and the policy > requirements, including shipping an arch:all common package that will > contain the changelog for each multiarch library, which then ships just a > symlink. Bu

Re: Please test gzip -9n - related to dpkg with multiarch support

2012-02-07 Thread Neil Williams
On Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:11:16 +0100 Michael Biebl wrote: > On 07.02.2012 18:07, Joey Hess wrote: > > Neil Williams wrote: > >> I'd like to ask for some help with a bug which is tripping up my tests > >> with the multiarch-aware dpkg from experimental - #647522 - > >> non-deterministic behaviour of

Re: Please test gzip -9n - related to dpkg with multiarch support

2012-02-07 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Joey, On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 01:07:11PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Neil Williams wrote: > > I'd like to ask for some help with a bug which is tripping up my tests > > with the multiarch-aware dpkg from experimental - #647522 - > > non-deterministic behaviour of gzip -9n. > pristine-tar hat tri

Re: Please test gzip -9n - related to dpkg with multiarch support

2012-02-07 Thread Michael Biebl
On 07.02.2012 18:07, Joey Hess wrote: > Neil Williams wrote: >> I'd like to ask for some help with a bug which is tripping up my tests >> with the multiarch-aware dpkg from experimental - #647522 - >> non-deterministic behaviour of gzip -9n. > > pristine-tar hat tricks[1] aside, none of gzip, bzip

Re: Please test gzip -9n - related to dpkg with multiarch support

2012-02-07 Thread Joey Hess
Neil Williams wrote: > I'd like to ask for some help with a bug which is tripping up my tests > with the multiarch-aware dpkg from experimental - #647522 - > non-deterministic behaviour of gzip -9n. pristine-tar hat tricks[1] aside, none of gzip, bzip2, xz are required to always produce the same c

Re: Please test gzip -9n - related to dpkg with multiarch support

2012-02-07 Thread Michael Biebl
On 07.02.2012 10:59, Neil Williams wrote: > > It would be a very laborious task to check the md5sums of every .gz file > in /usr/share/doc in every MultiArch: same package across all > architectures and the Contents-* files on the mirrors don't contain the > filesize of the listed files. Does anyo

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Bug#639111: ITP: libtest-carp-perl -- test your code for calls to Carp functions

2011-08-24 Thread Florian Schlichting
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Florian Schlichting * Package name: libtest-carp-perl Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Daniel Muey * URL : http://search.cpan.org/~dmuey/Test-Carp-0.2/ * License : GPL-1+ / Artistic Programming Lang: Perl Description

Bug#637559: ITP: libtest-mock-redis-perl -- test stub for Redis databases

2011-08-12 Thread Maximilian Gass
Package: wnpp Owner: Maximilian Gass Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libtest-mock-redis-perl Version : 0.05 Upstream Author : Jeff Lavallee * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-Mock-Redis

Bug#636859: ITP: test456 -- Another test, not working

2011-08-06 Thread Misha Strong
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Misha Strong * Package name: test456 Version : sx.y.zasdasdasd Upstream Author : Name * URL : http://wasdasdasdww.example.org/ * License : asdasdadasdasdsadasSD, MIT/X, etc.) Programming Lang: C Description

Bug#636843: ITP: libtest-routine-perl -- Perl test framework for tests as composable units of assertion

2011-08-06 Thread Maximilian Gass
Package: wnpp Owner: Maximilian Gass Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libtest-routine-perl Version : 0.012 Upstream Author : Ricardo Signes * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-Routine

Bug#636445: ITP: genbackupdata -- generate test data sets for backup software

2011-08-03 Thread Lars Wirzenius
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Lars Wirzenius * Package name: genbackupdata Version : 1.5 Upstream Author : Lars Wirzenius * URL : http://braawi.org/genbackupdata/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: Python Description : generate test data sets

Bug#635388: ITP: ruby-rack-test -- Simple testing API built on Rack

2011-07-25 Thread Youhei SASAKI
Package: wnpp Owner: Youhei SASAKI Severity: wishlist * Package name: ruby-rack-test Version : 0.6.0 Upstream Author : Bryan Helmkamp * URL or Web page : http://github.com/brynary/rack-test * License : MIT Description : Simple testing API built on Rack Rack::Test

Re: A new version of make-dfsg has been uploaded to experimental, please test

2011-07-18 Thread Ian Jackson
I wrote: > Anyway, can you please post the incompatibility list here, if it's not > too long ? Never mind, fetched it myself. Ian. make-dfsg (3.82-1) experimental; urgency=low * New upstream release. A complete list of bugs fixed in this version is available here: http://sv.gnu.org/bugs

Re: A new version of make-dfsg has been uploaded to experimental, please test

2011-07-18 Thread Ian Jackson
Manoj Srivastava writes ("A new version of make-dfsg has been uploaded to experimental, please test"): > make 3.82 will require some transitions due to backward > incompatibility on GNU-make-specific features. Some bug reports have > already occurred for build is

A new version of make-dfsg has been uploaded to experimental, please test

2011-07-18 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, make 3.82 will require some transitions due to backward incompatibility on GNU-make-specific features. Some bug reports have already occurred for build issues with make 3.82, such as http://bugs.debian.org/603759 . Since there are known backward incompatibilities, make has been up

Bug#631207: ITP: jenkins-test-annotations -- Annotation library for tracking testing in Jenkins

2011-06-21 Thread James Page
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: James Page * Package name: jenkins-test-annotations Version : 1.0 * URL : http://github.com/jenkinsci/lib-test-annotations * License : MIT Programming Lang: Java Description : Annotation library for tracking

Bug#629577: ITP: jtreg -- Regression Test Harness for the OpenJDK platform

2011-06-07 Thread Guillaume Mazoyer
Programming Lang: Java Description : Regression Test Harness for the OpenJDK platform jtreg is the test harness used by the OpenJDK test framework. This framework is intended primarily for regression tests. It can also be used for unit tests, functional tests, and even simple product tests

Bug#628857: ITP: jtharness-java -- General purpose, fully-featured, flexible, and configurable test harness.

2011-06-01 Thread Guillaume Mazoyer
Programming Lang: Java Description : General purpose, fully-featured, flexible, and configurable test harness. The JT harness is a general purpose, fully-featured, flexible, and configurable test harness very well suited for most types of unit testing. Originally developed as a test

Bug#628016: ITP: python-coverage-test-runner -- fail Python program unit tests unless they test everything

2011-05-26 Thread Lars Wirzenius
, so I need to re-introduce the package into Debian. * Package name: python-coverage-test-runner Version : 1.5 Upstream Author : Lars Wirzenius * URL : http://liw.fi/coverage-test-runner/ * License : GPL3+ Programming Lang: Python Description : fail

Bug#626878: ITP: libtest-www-mechanize-psgi-perl -- test PSGI programs using WWW::Mechanize

2011-05-15 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard * Package name: libtest-www-mechanize-psgi-perl Version : 0.35 Upstream Author : Leon Brocard * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-WWW-Mechanize-PSGI/ * License : Artistic or GPL-1+ Programming

Bug#626017: ITP: ruby-shoulda-context -- context framework for Test::Unit

2011-05-07 Thread Antonio Terceiro
: context framework for Test::Unit From upstream README: Shoulda’s contexts make it easy to write understandable and maintainable tests for Test::Unit. It’s fully compatible with your existing tests in Test::Unit, and requires no retooling to use. -- Antonio Terceiro http://softwarelivre.org

Bug#626016: ITP: ruby-shoulda-matchers -- Test helpers for Rails applications, compatible with Test::Unit and RSpec

2011-05-07 Thread Antonio Terceiro
: Test helpers for Rails applications, compatible with Test::Unit and RSpec From upstream README: Test::Unit- and RSpec-compatible one-liners that test common Rails functionality. These tests would otherwise be much longer, more complex, and error-prone. -- Antonio Terceiro http

Re: Bug#617339: ITP: [PACKAGE] -- xfstests torture test for xfs and other filesystem

2011-03-08 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On ti, 2011-03-08 at 09:39 +, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: > I fixed the bug title. > > On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 09:57:40AM +0100, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > > Description: xfstests is a torture test suite for filesystem bugs. It is > > useful in order to debug problem on

Re: Bug#617339: ITP: [PACKAGE] -- xfstests torture test for xfs and other filesystem

2011-03-08 Thread Jonathan Wiltshire
I fixed the bug title. On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 09:57:40AM +0100, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > Description: xfstests is a torture test suite for filesystem bugs. It is > useful in order to debug problem on linux filesystem. It > could be run on xfs, udf, nfs, ext2, ext3, ext4, reiserfs,

Bug#617339: ITP: [PACKAGE] -- xfstests torture test for xfs and other filesystem

2011-03-08 Thread Bastien ROUCARIES
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Package name: xfstests Version: git20110223 Upstream Author: Alex Elder x...@oss.sgi.com URL: GPL Description: xfstests is a torture test suite for filesystem bugs. It is useful in order to debug problem on linux

Bug#617239: ITP: libtest-rdf-perl -- Test RDF data for content, validity and equality

2011-03-07 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard * Package name: libtest-rdf-perl Version : 0.20 Upstream Author : Kjetil Kjernsmo * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-RDF/ * License : Artistic or GPL-1+ Programming Lang: Perl Description

Bug#616492: ITP: libtest-pod-no404s-perl -- Test::Pod::No404s

2011-03-04 Thread Nicholas Bamber
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libtest-pod-no404s-perl Version : 0.01 Upstream Author : Apocalypse * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-Pod-No404s/ * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl Description : Test

Bug#616490: ITP: libtest-autoloader-perl -- Test::AutoLoader

2011-03-04 Thread Nicholas Bamber
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libtest-autoloader-perl Version : 0.03 Upstream Author : Benjamin Warfield * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-AutoLoader/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: Perl Description

Re: Wanted: system/volunteer to do whole-archive rebuild (×3) to test sbuild

2011-02-21 Thread Roger Leigh
power‐ ful. Is it safe to switch to apt or aptitude as the default resolver?Almost certainly.This exhaustive test demonstrates that 99.34–99.35% of the existing archive builds entirely unchanged. Of the 0.65–0.66% which built with an altered installed package set,

Re: Wanted: system/volunteer to do whole-archive rebuild (×3) to test sbuild

2011-02-15 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 15/02/11 at 11:35 +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Feb 15, Roger Leigh wrote: > > > - with a lot of disc space > How many TB? > > > - and a lot of spare CPU cycles > Is sbuild able to scale linearly to 16-32 CPUs in a single VM or does it > need many smaller servers? > And how long would this

Re: Wanted: system/volunteer to do whole-archive rebuild (×3) to test sbuild

2011-02-15 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Feb 15, Roger Leigh wrote: > - with a lot of disc space How many TB? > - and a lot of spare CPU cycles Is sbuild able to scale linearly to 16-32 CPUs in a single VM or does it need many smaller servers? And how long would this take with e.g. 96 2.1 GHz Opteron CPU cores? Depending on the har

Re: Wanted: system/volunteer to do whole-archive rebuild (×3) to test sbuild

2011-02-15 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Roger Leigh | If there are any project machines available that could do this, that | would be great! I have a couple of machines that I'd like to get burned in properly. They're not .d.o machines (they're freedesktop.org), but I'll happily give you access to play around. Please grab me on IR

Re: Wanted: system/volunteer to do whole-archive rebuild (×3) to test sbuild

2011-02-15 Thread Roger Leigh
gt; ? > All you seem to want is the resolver's results, nothing else. > In fact, a simple, clean, chroot running apt-get --dry-run build-dep, and > aptitude --simulate build-dep should do it. I don't just want to test the resolver, which I agree wouldn't need this. I also want

Re: Wanted: system/volunteer to do whole-archive rebuild (×3) to test sbuild

2011-02-14 Thread Raphael Geissert
Roger Leigh wrote: > However, in order to understand the implications, we need concrete > data about exactly how they differ, and under what situations. What > I would like to do is a rebuild of the squeeze archive (since it > won't change between builds) using each of the "internal", "apt" and >

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