Re: Questions about including tests/ directory into package

[Sao I Kuan <saoikuan@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 2:38 AM Diane Trout <diane@ghic.org> wrote:
> The way I solved that problem in a similar package was this
>
> Test-Command: set -e
>  ; for py in $(py3versions -r 2>/dev/null)
>  ; do cd tests
>  ; echo "Testing with $py in $(pwd):"
>  ; http_proxy= $py -m pytest -v --pyargs
>  ; done
> Depends: @, python3-all, python3-pytest
>
> The goal of autopkgtests is to test the installed package, when
> autopkgtest starts running it defaults to starting in the extracted
> copy of the source package.
>
> The goal is to make sure you test the copy in /usr/lib/python*/dist-
> packages. So I assumed if cd-ed into the tests directory the package
> source module wouldn't be available to the test runner.
>
> I did make the assumption that none of the tests messed with the python
> path  to look in the parent directory...

Thanks, Diane.

I tried with your given example, it really helped. A lot of
appreciates. Thanks for your kind and deep explanation.

Sincerely,

Sao I Kuan
saoikuan@gmail.com