[Pkg-octave-devel] check.m for the forge packages

[Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 04:35:22PM +0100, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> * Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson <ojsbug at gmail.com> [2008-03-20 00:31]:
> 
> > The implementation in octave-pkg-dev sounds nice. But I am just not
> > getting the point of all this. Is this really neccesery?
> 
> Nearly all packages maintained by the DOG run tests.  This is also typically
> the case in Debian as general.  Running tests at package build is of great
> help to detect problems before uploading or even on the autobuilders.

Yes, that's what I thought but looking at the source that does call
the test routine there is no checking if the test succeeded, so this
is just a visual for the user and has nothing to do with automation?

If that is the case, then I can do some other tests that are not based
on the test function in octave for those packages that don't have that
implemented.

Oli