[Python-apps-team] Bug#735578: mercurial: autopkgtest testsuite fails on stderr, hgsubversion requires network access

[Martin Pitt]

Hey Javi,

Javi Merino [2014-02-10 22:31 +0000]:
> Applied, will be in mercurial-2.9-1.  Thanks!

Splendid, thanks!

> >    In Ubuntu's CI machinery we don't have access to outside servers
> >    like alioth.

Actually, we recently fixed that by setting correct $http[s]_proxy
variables. So as long as mercurial respects those, it should actually
work now. (Just FYI)

> >    Would you accept a patch that sets up a local svn repository with
> >    some example commits and then imports from that? This makes the
> >    test independent of network, connectivity, or alioth problems, and
> >    as autopkgtest is primarily meant to be a "do I have everything
> >    required in the package" smoketest, it should suffice.
> 
> I'd definitely accept it.  I don't really like the current test for
> hgsubversion, it's just the best I could come up with.

Ack, thanks. I'll keep that on my list.

Martin
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Martin Pitt                        | http://www.piware.de
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