ack debian9 testing questions

[Axel Beckert]

Hi,

Nguyen Van Long wrote:
> I'm trying to testing how to ack package work on debian9.
> 
> So my questions are:
> 
> 1.       Currently, are there existing any way/support to test on ack source
> package?

The ack test suite is run when the package is built.

> 2.       Can you suggest some tools like "autopkgtest" to test ack or even
> other packages?

ack supports autopkgtest, e.g. if you want to test the installed ack
package on your system with autopkgtest, you can do this like this:

First install the needed dependencies (as root):

# apt build-dep ack
# apt install autopkgtest pkg-perl-autopkgtest

Then (as normal user) download and unpack the source package (needed
for the included test suite):

$ apt-get source ack

Change into the unpacked source package and run autopkgtest:

$ autopkgtest -B ./ack-2.14 --- null

It will run the upstream test suite on the installed ack package.

It will though through an error if the transitional package ack-grep
is not installed:

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
dpkg-query: package 'ack-grep' is not installed and no information is available
Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.

#   Failed test 'Got status information for package ack-grep'
#   at /usr/share/pkg-perl-autopkgtest/runtime-deps-and-recommends.d/syntax.t line 81.

#   Failed test 'Got file list for package ack-grep'
#   at /usr/share/pkg-perl-autopkgtest/runtime-deps-and-recommends.d/syntax.t line 87.
# Looks like you failed 2 tests of 8.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

You can either ignore these errors or install the transitional package
ack-grep beforehand.

Hope, this helps.

		Regards, Axel
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