Hi Nilesh! Nilesh Patra <nilesh@nileshpatra.info>, 14/10/2021 – 15:06:07 (+0530): > I've a couple of ideas to run tests. First off, so we are on the same > page, the build/tests etc (process till creation of .deb) have to > happen offline, so doing a clone during build is not possible. > > So there are two workarounds: > > a) If the size of test repository is not very huge, you could download > that, and simply copy it to the debian/ directory, and before the > build starts, you could do something like: > > execute_before_dh_auto_test: > mv debian/<your-test-dir> <the-build-dir> Wow, that's very interesting! | git clone https://github.com/editorconfig/editorconfig-core-test | rm -rf editorconfig-core-test/.git* | du -sh editorconfig-core-test | 268K editorconfig-core-test Sounds good?! > b) If the size is large, or, you like this options -- you could modify > d/watch, and use multi-orig upstream tarballs. This basically means > getting multiple tarball sources and embedding the test data. We do > this in med-team > > I cannot find good links for it directly, but you could refer these[1,2,3] > Let me know if you need more help b) sounds very good too and I see here a very good opportunity to learn more on Debian packaging. And this solution seems the one with less maintenance too. As I understand better a) for the moment, I will go for it for now, but I will keep b) in the pipe. Thanks a lot! -- Faustin
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