Re: lintian tag team/pkg-perl/testsuite/no-team-tests
Hi,
On 2020-12-07 16:51, gregor herrmann wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Dec 2020 16:07:46 +0200, Andrius Merkys wrote:
>
>> I am working on a package already having pkg-perl autopkgtest suite, and
>> with 'Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-perl' in d/control. I want to add a
>> regular autopkgtest in addition to already existing pkg-perl suite.
>
> Out of curiosity: Why? [0]
The package in question (libjson-validator-perl) is to provide symlinks
to files in another binary package (openapi-specification) [1]. With
this autopkgtest I want to make sure the symlinks are not broken by
changes in openapi-specification.
>> I
>> add d/tests/control with a 'Test-Command' there, but now lintian
>> complains with:
>>
>> team/pkg-perl/testsuite/no-team-tests autopkgtest, autopkgtest-pkg-perl
>>
>> The same tag is shown even if I change to 'Testsuite: autopkgtest,
>> autopkgtest-pkg-perl'. Am I doing something wrong, or is this an issue
>> with lintian?
>
> I think I've seen this before, and so far I've ignored it (or maybe
> overridden it) as "well, yes, this is a special situation …"
>
> But maybe lintian could be improved, I never really looked into the
> details of this combination.
By looking into lintian code [2], it seems that the code expects
'Testsuite' to contain a single entry, not comma-separated entries. I
will file an issue on lintian.
> [0]
> We do have some packages like this:
>
> % ls -1d */debian/tests/control
> boxer/debian/tests/control
> debsums/debian/tests/control
> equivs/debian/tests/control
> lemonldap-ng/debian/tests/control
> libapache-authenhook-perl/debian/tests/control
> libapache-ssllookup-perl/debian/tests/control
> libapache2-mod-perl2/debian/tests/control
> libapache2-reload-perl/debian/tests/control
> libcli-framework-perl/debian/tests/control
> libdbd-mariadb-perl/debian/tests/control
> libdbd-mysql-perl/debian/tests/control
> libdist-inkt-perl/debian/tests/control
> mb2md/debian/tests/control
>
> (Although some of them would probably be fine with a default
> autopkgtest-pkg-perl. Others are applications and not typical CPAN
> distributions/modules, and others really need special casing.)
[1] https://bugs.debian.org/964496
[2] /usr/share/lintian/checks/team/pkg-perl/testsuite.pm
Thanks,
Andrius
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