[Pkg-privacy-maintainers] MAT 0.6 packaging

Sascha Steinbiss satta at tetrinetsucht.de
Mon Jan 4 21:38:59 UTC 2016


Hi intrigeri,

> I had a quick look. Looks good! My only comment is that IIRC 0.6
> removes the dependency on hachoir; perhaps the packaging should
> reflect this change?

Sure, will do this for 0.6.1.

[…]
> 
> * Upstream implemented the ability to run the test suite once copied
>  out of the source tree, the idea being to run it as an autopkgtest
>  (see what we do in pkg-perl for examples). This is of course not
>  a blocker, but if you're interested, then it would be awesome.
>  We've seen MAT broken by updates of e.g. exiftool in the past, and
>  ci.debian.net would have told us about it if we had had such a test
>  setup back then.

Sounds good. I will look into moving the test suite into an autopkgtest. 
I was going to try automating some GUI tests via LDTP as well if time allows, but likely not for 0.6.1.

Cheers
Sascha


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