Re: Best practices for test data?
On Fri, Dec 25, 2020 at 8:29 PM Cyril Brulebois <cyril@debamax.com> wrote:
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> So I wanted to check with you whether shipping test data is actually
> fine, or whether I should actually strip that from the binary package.
> In the latter case, I'd be happy to learn about the recommended way of
> dropping those. :)
I don't know if it's best practise or not. But shipping test data in
the -dev package is a pattern that has existed for a long time.
The autopkgtest-pkg-go also relies on this pattern, since it runs the
tests with code from -dev package,
https://salsa.debian.org/go-team/packages/dh-golang/-/blob/debian/sid/script/dh_golang_autopkgtest#L95
Since the -dev package is not intended for users(see the recent
buildlibs proposal), I don't think anyone is going to change this.
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Shengjing Zhu
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