Ubuntu
checkbox package

Depend camera tests on device.category == 'CAPTURE' instead of xawtv

Bug #983911 reported by Ara Pulido
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Checkbox
Fix Released
Undecided
Unassigned
Checkbox 0.13.x "first_precise_sru"
checkbox (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

Creating this bug to start a discussion, rather than propose a solution.

Currently, the camera/detect test depends on xawtv, which is not in main. Therefore, it won't be installed by default.

Is the camera/detect test really needed? Shall we just depend the rest of the camera test on the device.category == 'CAPTURE'?

Ara Pulido (ara)
Changed in checkbox:
milestone: none → 0.13.x
Revision history for this message
Daniel Manrique (roadmr) wrote :

It'd be interesting to know which devices can show as CAPTURE. If scanners are, then the test will run on systems with a scanner plugged in :)

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in checkbox (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Daniel Manrique (roadmr) wrote :

OK, moving to Incomplete for checkbox, pending verification of whether a scanner appears as a CAPTURE device. Marking invalid for ubuntu/checkbox as per our policy. If so, both the camera/detect test and the detect section of the camera_test script could potentially be removed.

I did some research and it's possible to use gstreamer to detect whether a webcam is present (look at Ubiquity's source code for examples), but if CAPTURE-based detection is reliable, we can just use that.

Changed in checkbox:
status: New → Invalid
status: Invalid → Incomplete
Revision history for this message
Daniel Manrique (roadmr) wrote :

xawtv has been removed as a requirement for checkbox, and now camera detection uses a different mechanism. Introduced in Checkbox rev 1569.

Marking Fix Released as this is in the latest checkbox packages.

Changed in checkbox:
status: Incomplete → Fix Released
Changed in checkbox (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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