[Python-Dev] test failures on Debian unstable (original) (raw)

Martin v. Loewis martin@v.loewis.de
24 Nov 2002 09:34:35 +0100

Tim Peters <tim.one@comcast.net> writes:

testnormalization should probably be changed to a -u thing, and put in regrtest's "expected skip" list on all platforms (it requires a giant text file of test cases that isn't checked into the project).

What -u would you propose?

testbsddb3 is already in already a regrtest -u thingie, so should be in the expected-skip list on all boxes.

I don't like the expected-skip mechanism at all. Why does being Linux (or HP-UX) has anything to do with whether we can run the test_normalization test; that test is completely platform-independent.

Why is it expected that test_bz2 works on Linux? It won't work if you don't have the libraries.

Instead, I would expect that test_bz2 works if the bz2 module is present, and fails to work if it was not built. Likewise for test_normalization: If a certain file is present, it should succeed, otherwise, it should fail.

Regards, Martin