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file-notify-tests should be expected to fail when no file notificatio package

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From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 14823 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#14823: file-notify-tests should be expected to fail when no
 file notificatio package
Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 09:57:38 +0200

Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org> writes:

> These tests should have ":expected-result :failed" when no file
> notification package is available. (Ideally, they would be skipped, but
> ert does not have that feature so :expected-result is the best we can do
> at present.)

Should be fixed now, could you please check?

When ert has a real skip feature, we could handle also the case to run
the tests for remote file systems, even when no file notification
package has been linked with Emacs. For now, we don't run them in this
case.

Best regards, Michael.

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