Re: Unable to set custom test command for pybuild

[Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org>]

On 31.10.24 21:53, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> Hi Adrian,
>
> On Thu, Oct 31, 2024 at 07:08:20PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> > Hi Julian,
> >
> > [...]
> > Thanks a lot. I would have never guessed that.
> >
> > Meanwhile, I found the following alternative approach in the README.rst [1]:
> >
> > 	dh_auto_test -- --system=custom --test-args='{interpreter} setup.py test'
> >
> > Your suggestion looks cleaner. If it works, I'll use it. If not, I'll stick to the
> > approach above as it actually works. Took me forever to figure this all out.
> >
> > I think this information could be added to the Pybuild page on the Debian wiki [2].
>
> Sounds a great idea; please feel free to edit the page to include
> this!

sorry, but this feels like a bullshit comment. pun intended.

the pybuild information really is not adequate. but requesting people 
having questions to just add another tiny improvement to this kind of 
documentation is not helping very much.  So maybe the people already 
knowing all the quirks could come up with a way to rewrite the docs?

We even could have that as the first topic for a Python BoF, before 
starting any other topic ...

Matthias