[MIR] umockdev
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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umockdev (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
We have some packages with test suites which create a fake /sys structure for simulating particular hardware. This affects at least upower and ubuntu-
https:/
However, this stopped working with current udev, as that dropped support for the $SYSFS_PATH environment variable. umockdev is the successor of fakesys.py, has a similar API, but lots of extra features but it does not use $SYSFS_PATH but a preload library which diverts access to /sys, /dev, etc. to a temporary directory testbed. With that, all tests can run as normal user. See https:/
I am converting ubuntu-
umockdev is nothing that we would put into a default installation, it's purely a testing tool. I am the upstream and Ubuntu developer. There are currently no bugs in Ubuntu; there have been quite a number of upstream bugs so far, but I fixed them all except two wishlist bugs for new features (https:/
Please review this package for main inclusion. Thank you in advance!
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.