add stressant package into Grml

[anarcat]

to quote from the control file:

Stressant is a simple stress testing and burn-in tool

It is designed to run on new machines to make sure they will work
reliably by testing various parts of the system (CPU, RAM, disk,
network) by putting them under heavy load and try to detect failures.

As much as possible, stressant tries to reuse existing tools to
perform the various tasks and aims to be run automatically.

it has just entered Debian sid and will pull at least 3 new
dependencies in (python-humanize, python-colorlog and stress-ng)

adding this is essential for the Stressant project to continue
collaborating with Grml.

[anarcat]

ping? i have added a manpage to stressant to comply with the policy and I believe the documentation is pretty complete, if maybe a little minimal...

[mika]

I didn't forget about it, sorry for not responding until now: I'd like to finish the new Grml stable release and avoid any non-positive test results if possible, though stressant isn't available in Debian/testing so it will raise a test warning on our builds.

[anarcat]

Okay no problem! Thanks for the response... It would be great to see stressant shipped with the newest grml release! :)

[mika]

Grml is based on Debian/testing, JFTR :)

[anarcat]

On 2017-04-27 07:34:01, Michael Prokop wrote: Grml is based on Debian/testing, JFTR :)

but there are builds for unstable as well, no?

[mika]

Yes, but the package selection (currently) is independent of the Debian release, so whatever is in the list is trying to be installed.

[anarcat]

i see... will there be a possibility of including sid-only packages later? or through backports once buster hits the rails? :)

[mika]

Now having the new Grml stable release out and stretch soon to be released (so stressant will migrate to Debian/testing) I've looked in this and noticed the following for grml-full 2017.05 (adding unstable to sources.list):

The following NEW packages will be installed:
  fonts-font-awesome fonts-lato libjs-jquery libjs-modernizr libjs-sphinxdoc libjs-underscore python-colorlog python-humanize sphinx-rtd-theme-common stressant
0 upgraded, 10 newly installed, 0 to remove and 141 not upgraded.
Need to get 3,869 kB of archives.
After this operation, 15.7 MB of additional disk space will be used.

What's the rationale for the fonts, libjs and sphinx* packages here? TBH, 15.7MB is quite heavy for 284.0 kB of installed size for stressant itself. :(

[anarcat]

Ouch! That's probably the documentation... I will need to split that out in a stressant-doc package, I guess...

[anarcat]

should be fixed in the pending 0.4.1 upload (which may have to pass NEW because of the -doc package addition).

[anarcat]

stressant 0.4.1 has now passed NEW.

[mika]

I've just merged this, thanks for the PR :)