Re: Bug#1138092: ITP: lit -- Software Testing Tool

"Serafeim (Serafi) Zanikolas" <[email protected]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:43:12 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.general
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

hi Christian,

On Thu May 28, 2026 at 12:07 PM CEST, Christian Bayle wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Christian Bayle <[email protected]>
> X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
>
> * Package name    : lit
>   Version         : 18.1.8
>   Upstream Contact: Daniel Dunbar <[email protected]>
> * URL             : https://github.com/llvm/llvm-
> project/tree/main/llvm/utils/lit
> * License         : (Apache-2.0 with LLVM exception)
>   Programming Lang: (Python)
>   Description     : Software Testing Tool
>
>  *lit* is a portable tool for executing LLVM and Clang style test suites,
>  summarizing their results, and providing indication of failures. *lit* is
>  designed to be a lightweight testing tool with as simple a user interface as
>  possible.
>
>  - lit is part of LLVM repo but is also needed to build AMD ROCm
>  - plan to use a repo in python-team

please consider using a longer package name, e.g. llvm-lit would be one option.

devref, section 6.2.1. says:

	* Should ideally be at least 4 characters long, unless the upstream
	  name is shorter than that *and* the project is already widely
	  recognized by that name (e.g. fzf).

thanks,
serafi

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