Re: Packages with missing %check

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On Tue, 2014-02-25 at 22:38 +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 03:45:51PM +0100, Matthias Runge wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 08:50:18AM -0500, Adam Jackson wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2014-02-25 at 12:45 +0200, Alexander Todorov wrote:
> > > 
> > > > 1) Do we consider this a bug and if yes what priority do you give it? From last 
> > > > week discussions it looks like most people prefer to have tests executed in %check.
> > > 
> > > I don't consider %check to be an appropriate way to run tests, so no, I
> > > don't consider it a bug.  Stating it broadly: we don't have a separate
> > > phase for it in koji, which means we can't adequately set up tests in
> > > general; and adding it to koji would be a mistake, because build
> > > construction and build validation are fundamentally different phases.
> > > 
> > > This is an argument against %check, not against testing in general.  We
> > > should be relying on rpmbuild less, not more.  rpm doesn't even have
> > > anything like Requires(check), does it?
> > 
> > Hmm, then we should probably about enhancing this? Like adding a 
> > separate phase of for %check to rpmnbuild?
> 
> There is a proposal to allow better testing of packages, and groups of
> packages.  Actually at least two proposals but the one I'm thinking of
> now is:
> 
>   https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Taskotron

Just for the sake of accuracy, taskotron isn't so much a proposal as a
thing undergoing full-steam-ahead development, which fesco is kind of
expecting to be available for fedora.next:

https://bitbucket.org/fedoraqa

it is the replacement for AutoQA, which is a thing that currently exists
and which we currently use for Real Stuff.
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