Re: doubt with autopkgtest for javascript packages

[Xavier <yadd@debian.org>]

Le 08/11/2020 à 23:50, Sudip Mukherjee a écrit :
> Dear Javascript Maintainers,
> 
> While going through packages to find autopkgtests which are
> superficial I noticed that some of of the javascript packages are
> doing just:
> nodejs -e "require('foo.js');"
> 
> After reading the documentation at [1], it seems that it will just
> load the object in cache so that the exported properties and methods
> of the object can be used in the code.
> Can you please confirm if my understanding is correct and the tests
> are indeed superficial in nature as it is just loading the object and
> not actually using any of the exported methods or properties. The
> details about superficial autopkgtest can be seen at [2]. Since, I
> don't know anything about nodejs so I have not included these packages
> in my MBF mail and instead mailing you for confirmation.

Hi,

you're right, it's just a "syntax check", that's why such autopkgtest
are tagged as "superficial".
Note that some package not reviewed since 2 years may have a "require"
test not tagged as superficial.

Cheers,
Xavier