Bug#976669: lintian: please warn about autopkgtests that test rebuilt source, not as-installed, where possible
On Wed, 23 Dec 2020, Andrius Merkys wrote:
> false-positives. Even dh_auto_configure appears to be used legitimately
dh_auto_configure is the one I’d expect to be used (with autotools).
dh_auto_build is the one that raises red flags, and for *some*
buildsystems dh_auto_test invokes a make/maven/whatever target
that implies build if it was not built before. These uses, when
it can be done reliably, should also flag.
Examples for dh_auto_test:
• Many Makefiles for autotools-using packages contain lines like:
check: all
If this is present, it should warn. But since this is not present
everywhere, we can probably not warn due to too many false positives.
• With Maven, calling “mvn test” will *always* build the source
if it was not already built and test the just-compiled sources.
Here we CAN reliably flag.
bye,
//mirabilos
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