Re: .egg-info for entry points during dh_auto_test

[Michael Fladischer <michael@fladi.at>]

Hi Dmitry,

Am 30.10.2021 um 22:04 schrieb Dmitry Shachnev:
> I am a bit late, but nobody in this thread mentioned debian/pybuild.testfiles.
>
> It is a list of files or directories that pybuild will copy to its build
> directory before running the tests, and delete after running them.
>
> If you have *.egg-info in the orig tarball, just add that file (and the tests
> directory itself) to debian/pybuild.testfiles.

thanks, I wasn't aware of this, I'll use it instead of 
PYBUILD_(BEFORE|AFTER)_TEST to copy test assets into place.

> If no, also add this line to debian/rules:
>
> export PYBUILD_BEFORE_TEST={interpreter} setup.py egg_info

That seems like the best/most elegant solution to me. Thanks for 
sharing! So d/pybuild.testfiles is taken into account after 
PYBUILD_BEFORE_TEST?

Regards,
Michael