On Fri, 2016-05-06 at 18:07 -0500, Martin Pitt wrote: > In principle autodep8 could grow an automatic test for this, such as ... > However, this has some caveats: ... > Thus, while possible, this would have the maximum inefficiency. Doing > this on a per-package basis means knowing what the installcheck will > actually do and then the restrictions can become much softer and also > the test dependencies can be adjusted. AFAIK, autodep8 doesn't automatically run or turn on tests, the maintainer has to look at the output and make it suitable. Presumably the maintainer could customise any auto-generated installcheck-local setup from autodep8 such that it is suitable for the package. Are you suggesting the suggestion to setup a DEP-8 test for packages that have installcheck-local in Makefile.am files be done in lintian instead of in autodep8? > This of course should also get tried for the packages which have > installcheck-local to see what else breaks, before we enable this in > production. That would be appropriate for any situation where installcheck-local were to be run automatically without a maintainer checking the target. I don't think we were talking about that though, just about auto-asking maintainers to add a test for the installcheck-local target if present. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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