#857000 ncurses: Add autopkgtest for ncurses

Package:
ncurses
Source:
ncurses
Submitter:
Tiago Stürmer Daitx
Date:
2022-02-01 08:30:04 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
Tags:
#857000#5
Date:
2017-03-07 01:27:12 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

Please consider applying the following patch (or the original one [1])
to include support for autopkgtest to the ncurses package. This has
been part of Ubuntu since 2013 [1,2] and all tests passes for the
supported archs [3].

[1] http://launchpadlibrarian.net/130717116/ncurses_5.9-10ubuntu2_5.9-10ubuntu3.diff.gz
[2] https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ncurses/5.9-10ubuntu3
[3] https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/packages/ncurses

Many thanks,
Tiago Daitx
#857000#10
Date:
2018-02-10 12:06:34 UTC
From:
To:
[ CC'ing the original author of the patch. ]

Thanks for forwarding the patch, and apologies for not having replied
sooner.

This header seems to be unnecessary these days.  As of dpkg 1.17.11,
dpkg-source automatically adds the Testsuite field to the .dsc file if
debian/tests/control exists.

There is a Copyright header but no license information.  Can I assume
that the file is under the same license as the rest of ncurses?

I was wondering why there is no call to
test_delete_and_exit_functions(win) here, but when I added it I noticed
that the assertions in that function actually fail if there is no
controlling terminal.  And even with a controlling terminal, endwin()
fails under autopkgtest although it succeeds when executing the test
program directly.  This might warrant some comment.

I think build-essential is not strictly necessary, gcc should be
enough.  But that's not really important.

Cheers,
       Sven
#857000#15
Date:
2018-02-10 12:23:55 UTC
From:
To:
Well that did not turn out too well, since Vibhav Pant's @ubuntu.com
address is unfortunately no longer valid.

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Cheers,
       Sven
#857000#20
Date:
2018-08-12 07:07:14 UTC
From:
To:
Control: tags -1 + moreinfo

I will happily include the Ubuntu's autopkgtest once this question is
answered, but not before.

Cheers,
       Sven
#857000#27
Date:
2019-10-26 08:55:22 UTC
From:
To:
Hello, I never seen Canonical add different copyrights, and in case of no explicit license,
what is written in Debian copyright works

I'm adding another email for Vibhav Pant, but I'm pretty sure he just did copy-paste some headers from another
package or documentation!
(I did the same some weeks ago in another package testsuite)

Probably some Ubuntu wiki needs updating

G.
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