[DRE-maint] Bug#645357: Bug#645357: Default tests

[Gunnar Wolf]

Antonio Terceiro dijo [Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 01:50:58PM -0300]:
> > Yes, I find it very sensible. Of course, this could be part of the
> > gem2deb procedure, overridable in case <lib> is either not correctly
> > guessed, or in case there is more than one library. The ideal would be
> > to include every source file shipped as a library - Although there
> > are many cases where libraries depend on symbols declared on other
> > libraries, so we cannot just do a recursive "ruby -l $foo" on all
> > lib/*.rb... But it would be the best way.
> 
> We could change gem2deb in a way that it runs something equivalent to
> the following unconditionally, independent of the actual unit tests:
> 
> $ for ruby in ruby1.8 ruby1.9.1; do for file in $(find lib -name \*.rb); do $ruby -c $file; done; done
> (…)
> This would make sure all code has proper syntax, at least for the Ruby versions
> the package claims to support.
> 
> What do you guys think about this?

I think it won't do any harm - and given some details in the Ruby
upgrading process, it can help us catch something before it bites a
user. I expect the process to be quite fast.

So, both thumbs up from me.