Test suites considered good
Yesterday, I uploaded NBD 2.9.24-1 to Debian. The big new feature in that release is that it now has an 'includedir' global configuration variable, with which it supports a conf.d-style directory. This feature was implemented by request of Vagrant Cascadian, of LTSP fame.
Only it didn't build on kFreeBSD. The reason? The particular test that I added for that new feature failed.
It turned out to be a simple bug in the code, which just didn't trigger on Linux but which was a bug none the less. I hadn't noticed, since my main development machine runs Linux; this is why I added a test suite to the code.
Bug fixed, new package is in incoming. Whee.
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