Package: lintian
Version: 2.1.6
Severity: wishlist
Hi everyone,
Thinking about how to improve the QA aspect of Debian I though it would be
nice if lintian encouraged the use of test suites if they exist. This should
hopefully help in guaranteeing the functionality of the packages during their
existence in Debian. Of course the benefits of running a test suite are only
helpful when the package is built in different archs (assuming the uploader
*does* test the package in their box, which means one less arch to test it
under) or when a package rebuild occurs (either archive wide, or a binNMU).
I'm not yet sure how to implent it, basically I've reduced it to two options:
a) Only warn if a well known kind of test suite exists (e.g. perl's
test_harness, *units, etc).
b) Do as a) plus a more FP-prone check like dh_auto_test's.
And as for knowing whether the test suite is run:
* dh, dh build, or dh_auto_test are run.
* any occurrence of m/MAKE.{1,60}(test|check)/i in debian/rules.
* any other test suite-specific way to run the tests.
Comments, suggestions, volunteers (to for example help knowing about test
suite systems, as I do plan to work on this check)?
Cheers,
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Raphael Geissert - Debian Maintainer
www.debian.org - get.debian.net
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