Re: DEP8 tests using the built package source
[Adding autopkgtest-devel@ back to To. I fear that Martin is not
subscribed to -mentors@.]
* Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu>, 2014-03-19, 10:47:
autopkgtest calls dpkg-buildpackage to do the actual package build, so
for adding this to autopkgtest explicitly, we could add a flag for
that and call dpkg-buildpackage --target.
Hmmmm, it seems I had a bad preconception about autopkgtest: We do not
test against a binary package?
Short answer: hopefully we do!
Long answer:
You can declare that a test needs to be run from a built source tree.
Then the test runner will build the package. But that doesn't
necessarily mean that the built binaries will be used for anything.
Now, adt-run(1) has multiple modes of operation. In some of them the
built binaries are used to satisfy tests' dependencies, in others
packages from the archive are used. (This is super confusing. :/)
I hope that ci.debian.net is configured in such a way it uses binary
packages from the archive.
--
Jakub Wilk
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