Bug#927476: lintian: Please add --onlyrun examples
Chris Lamb:
> [...]
> Niels Thykier wrote:
>
>> We already examples in Lintian::Tutorial::TestSuite
>> (doc/tutorial/Lintian/Tutorial/TestSuite.pod).
> […]
>
> Agreed, although I was actually following t/bin/runtests --help here,
> not the POD documentation. Thus, both need to be updated? (Cloned bug)
>
>> have not been updated to reflect the "recent" changes to the test suite
>
> Presumably you are referring to the requirement (?) to first call t/
> bin/build-test-packages first (which I thought about when away from
> the keyboard last night).
>
Not only that, but all the examples of how to only run a particular test
does not seem to match what you were using (the examples were from
before the test suite got restructured).
> If so, I think it's a really bizarre user interface that does not warn
> you specifically when these are missing so I have retitled this bug
> to match.
>
> (I think I've just hit another bug in the tag extraction process which
> I will file after this mail...)
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> Best wishes,
>
Thanks,
~Niels
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