[Debian-med-packaging] Your changes to qcumber (Was: qcumber | Fix package to build successfully (!1))

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Nilesh,

On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 07:54:42AM +0530, Nilesh Patra wrote:
> >
> > Thanks a lot for your changes to the qcumber package.  Could you please
> > communicate to work exactly on this package?
> 
> 
> Alrighty, :)
> 
>   I know its outdated (and
> > has even newer upstream version) - but the watch file needs fixing to
> > really obtain the latest version.
> >
> > I would love to have an autopkgtest for this package before uploading.
> >
> 
> For the current version: I thinking of adding a simple autopkgtest of our
> own.
> For example, taking in a dummy dataset and checking if qcumber can output a
> result.
> (I'll however have to see how that can be done correctly)
> How d'you think about this?
> 
> If it does not seem good, we could update to a new upstream release which
> has tests now.

I suggest to invest time always into the latest upstream.  There is
basically a "randon" status in Git which was never uploaded.  So why
spent time into this and than update to latest anyway?
 
> > That's why I'm asking for your motivation to work on the package.  Are
> > you a user who could provide some sensible test.
> >
> 
> Not an end user, but I would definitely love to help, :)

Which is extremely welcome!

Thanks a lot

        Andreas.

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