Hello, On Sat, Apr 09, 2016 at 10:26:57PM +0000, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > On Sat, Apr 09, 2016 at 02:53:05PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > > Description : Debian helper tool for running ELPA package testsuites > > > > dh-elpa-test will try to run the upstream testsuites for ELPA packages > > prepared with dh_elpa. For ELPA packages, dh_auto_test alone is rarely > > suitable. > > Any reason this can't go in src:dh-elpa itself? Yeah. If dh-elpa-test runs the tests for a package, dh_auto_test must be disabled. That's because dh_auto_test runs `make test`, and many ELPA packages will run something that is incompatible with Debian if you run `make test`. If dh-elpa-test did not disable dh_auto_test, every package using it would need boilerplate `override_dh_auto_test: /bin/true`. But the only way for a debhelper helper to disable dh_auto_test is in its sequencer script. If I put the code to disable dh_auto_test in dh_elpa's sequencer script (/usr/share/perl5/Debian/Debhelper/Sequence/elpa.pm), dh_auto_test would be disabled for *all* packages using dh_elpa, which would be undesirable since some of them have test suites that *can* be run with a simple `make test`. So dh-elpa-test needs its own sequencer script in /usr/share/perl5/Debian/Debhelper/Sequence, and so it also needs its own corresponding /usr/bin/dh_elpa_test. But then for ease of maintenance it should be its own source package. -- Sean Whitton
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