Autopkgtest is failing octave-symbolic [1] because the environment
variable DH_OCTAVE_EXCLUDE_TEST controlling the behavior of
dh_octave_check (defined in d/rules) is not taken into account.
I committed a change do dh-otave [2] to cope with this situation. The
dh_octave_check script will now source the debian/checkvars file (if
it exists) before running the unit tests. So, instead of having this
in d/rules:
export DH_OCTAVE_EXCLUDE_TEST = sympref.m ezplot.m ezplot3.m
we should have a d/checkvars file containing this:
DH_OCTAVE_EXCLUDE_TEST="sympref.m ezplot.m ezplot3.m"
The environment variable will then be set both at build time and at CI
time.
Is this change okay with you? Should we use another technique or
another file name instead of d/checkvars?