Bug#38909: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#38909: Bug completely mysterious

[Martin Quinson]

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On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 05:55:02PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
>=20
> > I agree with the bug reporter, then. A package of the importance of sha=
dow
> > should desserve a test suite which would prevent the package building w=
hen
> > something's going wrong. Even if it's called "unstable", the day I won'=
t be
> > able to log onto my machine for one whole day, I'll get *mad*.=20
>=20
> One of the duties of package maintainers is *testing* his/her package
> before uploading it.
>=20
> So, even if, of course, we cannot test everything, at least a basic
> "dpkg -i login_... passwd_..." later followed by some basic login
> tests are assumed to always happen.
>=20
> So, well, we can retitle the bug "Please write a testsuite for shadow
> building"....and then leave it lie in the BTS for another 5 years, for
> sure.
>=20
> I sincerely doubt someone will ever take care of writing such a test
> suite.
>=20
> And I sincerely hope to be proven wrong..:-)

If you promise to use the ltp-* package to test each shadow upload, you're
welcome to close this bug ;) Documenting it somewhere in the SVN would be
good if it reveals as useful as the submitter says.

Bye, Mt.

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