Re: [MoM] Re: Help with Debian packaging of DCMTK++

[Ghislain Vaillant <ghisvail@gmail.com>]

On 17/07/15 17:33, Julien Lamy wrote:
> Le 16/07/2015 20:39, Andreas Tille a écrit :
> > That's OK now.  I guess your next commits will be a debian/ dir.  Feel
> > free to commit your latest stuff you just did and improve from there.
>
> I just pushed the first version of the debian dir, which raised a
> question regarding unit tests: should I assume that the tests have been
> run upstream or should I run them during the build? Right now, I've gone
> the easy way and skipped them: they run relatively quickly but require a
> specific environment (environment variables, running processes and
> whatnot, a script is provided to set up all of this).
>
> Next week, I'll try to integrate the code documentation and to fix the
> shlib-related Lintian warnings.
>
> Best,

The test suite should be run during the package build process. Since you 
said that a specific setup is required, you may want to use an override 
(override_dh_auto_test) to achieve the necessary setup / teardown for 
the test suite to run successfully. It should look like this in your 
d/rules:

override_dh_auto_test:
	# set your envvars up here
	ENVVAR1 = ...
	ENVVAR2 = ...
	# call the test suite
	dh_auto_test
	# optional teardown, if stuff needs to be cleared...
	rm ...

Bon courage,
Ghislain