Bug#972951: Fwd: Bug#972951: lintian should accept arbitrary files in /usr/share/gocode/**/testdata
On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 11:33 AM Felix Lechner
<felix.lechner@lease-up.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 7:48 AM Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com> wrote:
> >
> > Go library packages bundle their own test suites, which may include
> > arbitrary data files;
>
> Which package are you working on, please? We cannot investigate your
> issue properly without a reference.
I was working on a local package for my job. I'm not a DD or even a
DM nor have I had any contact with the Go team.
Any golang-*-dev package where the source package contains a
'testdata' directory somewhere should show this effect -- in
particular, if it contains .txt files that should trip
package-contains-documentation-outside-usr-share-doc. I did nothing
special to the result of running dh-make-golang on the upstream git
repo.
> By "Go library package" you probably mean Golang source modules. I
> just checked mine; they ship testing sources but no test data. Does it
> really make sense to ship either as part of the installation packages?
I could be wrong, but I am under the impression that the *_test.go
files and the testdata/** files are used by autopkgtest to run the
test suite against the installed version of the library. If these
files *aren't* used for anything, probably this bug should be
reassigned to dh-golang and turned into a request to have it weed them
out during the binary phase.
zw
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