Testing Django Packages, was: Re: [Python-modules-team] Bug#896429: python3-django-tables2: django_tables2 fails to import

[Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com>]

On April 21, 2018 8:56:52 PM UTC, Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org> wrote:
>On 04/21/2018 08:23 AM, Helmut Grohne wrote:
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>> After the dust has settled, I can follow up on d-devel with a summary
>> that suggests filtering this particular django exception.
>
>Again, instead you could setup a working Django environment and restart
>the tests. I'm not sure how hard that would be though.

I maintain several Django packages that have upstream tests.  When I looked into running the test suite either during package build or as an autopackagetest, I concluded it was more trouble than I had patience for.

I believe we could benefit from more documentation and perhaps tools to make it easier to integrate tests for Django modules.

Scott K