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From: Sebastian Chlad <schlad@suse.de>
To: ltp@lists.linux.it
Subject: [LTP] [PATCH] commands: Remove all test cases
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2018 16:48:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180426164824.2eed2345@linux-p5n0> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180426134726.GA14157@x230>

On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 15:47:26 +0200
Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> > Test cases testing commands are often outdated or not maintained.
> > Those test cases also do not fit in with current LTP project
> > status.  
> 
> > Signed-off-by: Sebastian Chlad <schlad@suse.de>
> > ---  
> this is controversial, as some people might be using some of them.

Sure. I'm really looking forward to hearing some feedback on this.

> But I'd be for removing most of these - these are mostly smoke tests
> which should be in upstream repositories (I guess live projects has
> better tests than these), where they have better change to stay up to
> date. Upstream tests are then can be run by packagers (and IMHO
> they're run, if they're available).

Actually valid point. Perhaps make sense to look closely at those
commands and see if some of those should be removed.

> 
> IMHO LTP should aim to test kernel, not userspace tools for Linux
> distros.
> 
> 
> Kind regards,
> Petr


  reply	other threads:[~2018-04-26 14:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-04-26 13:24 [LTP] Commands test cases Sebastian Chlad
2018-04-26 13:24 ` [LTP] [PATCH] commands: Remove all " Sebastian Chlad
2018-04-26 13:47   ` Petr Vorel
2018-04-26 14:48     ` Sebastian Chlad [this message]
2018-04-27  2:59     ` Li Wang
2018-04-26 14:28   ` Alexey Kodanev
2018-04-26 14:49     ` Sebastian Chlad
2018-04-27  7:20       ` Jan Stancek
2018-04-27  7:41         ` Li Wang
2018-04-26 17:27     ` Petr Vorel
2018-04-27  0:35       ` Xiao Yang
2018-04-27  0:35       ` Xiao Yang
2018-04-27  7:02         ` Petr Vorel
2018-04-27 11:35       ` Cyril Hrubis
2018-04-27 11:37         ` Cyril Hrubis
2018-05-16 10:12         ` Petr Vorel
2018-05-25 14:36           ` Sebastian Chlad
2018-05-29 15:13           ` =?unknown-8bit?q?Myl=C3=A8ne?= Josserand
2018-05-30  9:31             ` Cyril Hrubis
2018-06-04  6:34             ` Petr Vorel

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