RE: using build artifacts with autopkgtest

[Thomas Ward <teward@thomas-ward.net>]

I would hazard a guess and say 'no' because to my best knowledge, autopkgtests run independent of the build tree. If you need something left in the source tree you either need it packaged, or perhaps run the tests requiring those artifacts in your debian/rules as part of the build process. (Though, outside of a few rare cases I've seen I am not sure how effective this would be in practice, though it would guarantee it is run against the build tree.)

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From: Lorenzo <plorenzo@disroot.org>

Date: 11/24/25 18:57 (GMT-05:00)

To: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org

Subject: using build artifacts with autopkgtest

Hello Mentors,

I want to add the upstream testsuite of a package that I maintain
(socklog) to autopkgtest. However, when I do so, the test fails
because it uses two tiny C build artifacts (~40KiB) that are build only
to be used in the testsuite and are not part of the deb package.

Is there a way to access the uncleaned build tree from autopkgtest?

If not, I thought to add the two artifacts to the socklog.deb package,
but is there an appropriate path for it?
maybe /usr/lib/socklog/test/ ?

Lorenzo