[Pkg-privacy-maintainers] MAT 0.6 packaging

[Sascha Steinbiss]

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.
> 
> Excellent :)

Done. Hachoir removed from dependencies.

>>> * 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.

Done as well. The autopkgtest succeeds for me in a sid LXC container.

>> 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 :)

Absolutely :)

All changes just pushed.

Cheers
Sascha