Re: Policy Change Proposal: Running the upstream test suite
On July 29, 2024 3:14:33 PM UTC, PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel <frederic-emmanuel.picca@synchrotron-soleil.fr> wrote:
>> Maybe we indeed want a "minimal" autopkgtest environment, but many
>> upstream tests will fail in those and I don't see an automatic way to test
>> a random package in this way.
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>Even if not minimal, at least correspond to the upstream declares dependencies.
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>by 'declare' I am not even sure of the meaning.
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>dependencies of the test can be different from the required installed ones.
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>Maybe we should install only the python binaries and the dependencies marked <!nocheck>.
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>Is there a standard in the Python community for the test dependencies ?
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As usual, there are several.
Scott K
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