Re: DEP8 tests using the built package source
Hi Stephen,
On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 11:54:03PM +0100, Stephen Kitt wrote:
> ...
Thanks for the clarification / sharing your opinion.
> > Moreover I observed another issue with autopkgtest which is quite
> > astonishing to me: In bug #741274 it was reported that the autopkgtest
> > would fail and the according log is here:
> >
> > http://ci.debian.net/data/unstable-amd64/packages/p/python-pysam/2014-03-12.log
> >
> > The problem is that `make` was not available in the chroot (obviosly)
> > which does not sound very reasonable to me. While I added it to the
> > Depends in debian/tests/control I think it is not sensible to assume
> > that make exists in a build chroot (it is not in the Build-Depends) but
> > trying to build the package somehow and than notice that it is missing.
> > I admit that I'm really confused how autopkgtests are working.
>
> This is actually documented, sort of: the documentation for @builddeps@
> mentions make as one of the packages which gets pulled in. (Why not
> build-essential? Yet somehow gcc is available...)
In other words what we can see in the log above conflicts with the
documentation if make is not found and should be reported as bug in
autopkgtest ?
Kind regards
Andreas.
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