[Mageia-dev] Regression testing for generated RPM

[Claire Robinson]

On 04/01/13 09:15, Jochen Breuer wrote:
> 2013/1/4 Guillaume Rousse <guillomovitch at gmail.com>
> 
>> We already run existing tests suite during package build... Running them
>> again on a different host would just change the execution environment to
>> use runtime dependencies instead of build time dependencies. I don't know
>> if the potential results are worth the additional infrastructure needed.
> 
> 
> I was under the impression, that only some kind of lint checking of the RPM
> was performed. I'm talking about checking the functionality of the packaged
> software. Are you already doing that? What kind of tests are performed
> during packaging?
> 

Packagers are expected to do some checks themselves.

https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Updates_policy#Maintainer_.28or_any_interested_packager.29

Claire