Hi,
I decided to upgrade the packaging Git for qiime[1] to qiime2 since we
can not distribute qiime 1 any more. The current status is very rough
but I'm stumbling upon a strange error in the build time test:
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ERROR: test_reload_fails (qiime2.tests.test_artifact_api.TestImports)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/build/qiime-2018.8.0/qiime2/tests/test_artifact_api.py", line 23, in setUp
get_dummy_plugin()
File "/build/qiime-2018.8.0/qiime2/core/testing/util.py", line 20, in get_dummy_plugin
"When running QIIME 2 unit tests, the QIIMETEST environment "
RuntimeError: When running QIIME 2 unit tests, the QIIMETEST environment variable must be defined so that plugins required by unit tests are loaded. The value of the QIIMETEST environment variable can be anything. Example command: QIIMETEST=1 nosetests
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Ran 623 tests in 1.982s
FAILED (errors=238)
Before I ask upstream I'd love if somebody would have another look.
May be I'm just missing something.
I found that the required "testing plugin" (dummy-plugin) is defined as an entry point argument in setup.py. Qiime uses pkg_resources module to find the plugin using package's metadata (egg-info). Unfortunately, the metadata are only available after the "install" phase.
I thought of two options:
* rely on autopkgtest
* run build-time tests after "dh_auto_install"
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Liubov