Bug#1061152: asymptote: autopkgtest should test installed package

[Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net>]

Hi Hilmar,

On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 06:07:56PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
> [...]
> > Hello,
> >
> >> Your package's autopkgtest runs the upstream test suite which is
> >> nice. However, it first builds the program and then tests that,
> >> rather than the package from the archive.  This is not very useful,
> >> as changes in reverse dependencies could cause breakage at runtime
> >> which might vanish after a rebuild.
[...]
(followed by suggestion of how to fix this)

If Sven's patch works, you would also be able to drop most of the
test-time dependencies and depend only on asymptote itself (and maybe
one or two other packages), as you would not need to build asymptote.

Best wishes,

   Julian