Re: How to handle a package requiring external test data for its test suite?

To: Thomas Moulard <thomas.moulard@gmail.com>
Cc: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: How to handle a package requiring external test data for its test suite?
From: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 08:33:25 +0900
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Le Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 08:10:29AM +0900, Thomas Moulard a écrit :
> 
> I am currently packaging a computer vision software[1] which test suite
> requires external data (images).  Considering the weight of the images
> (~75Mb) compared to the package size (a few Mb) they decided to distribute
> them separately.

Dear Thomas,

Have you considered running the tests with autopkgtest ?

    http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep8/

Then, you can either download the data or install it from a separate
data package.

Have a nice day,

-- 
Charles Plessy
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

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