[Pkg-privacy-maintainers] MAT 0.6 packaging

[intrigeri]

Sascha Steinbiss wrote (04 Jan 2016 21:38:59 GMT) :
>> 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.

Excellent :)

>> * 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. 

Cool.

> I was going to try automating some GUI tests via LDTP as well if
> time allows, but likely not for 0.6.1.

We can always have a -2 :)

Cheers,
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intrigeri