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Re: Package testing with Salsa CI for new packages

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On Thu, Aug 17, 2023 at 05:10:08PM +0200, Paul Boddie wrote:
> Here, it would seem that the most prudent approach is to use the Salsa CI 
> service instead of trying to get the test suite to run during the package 
> build process.
You should do both if possible, assuming that by "Salsa CI service" you
mean autopkgtests which you can, and IMO should, also run locally.

> One motivation for doing so involves not having to specify 
> build dependencies for packages only needed for test suite execution, which 
> itself requires the invocation of gbp buildpackage with --extra-package 
> arguments since some packages are completely new to Debian.
This is fine. Not to mention that the same problem exists for
autopkgtests, as you say below.

> I have also found it difficult to persuade the tests to run successfully 
> during the build process. A few of these attempt to invoke the moin program, 
> but this cannot be located since it is not installed in the build environment. 
This should also be fine, unless it's completely impossible to run it
without installing into /.

> However, one conclusion is that testing a system, as some of the 
> test cases appear to do, and as opposed to testing library functionality, is 
> not necessarily appropriate when directed by something like dh_auto_test.
If there are tests that can't be run at build time you can skip those. You
can even ask the upstream to provide tool arguments to simplify that.

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Package testing with Salsa CI for new packages Paul Boddie <paul@boddie.org.uk> - 2023-08-17 17:20 +0200
  Re: Package testing with Salsa CI for new packages Carles Pina i Estany <carles@pina.cat> - 2023-08-18 10:00 +0200
    Re: Package testing with Salsa CI for new packages Paul Boddie <paul@boddie.org.uk> - 2023-08-18 13:20 +0200
      Re: Package testing with Salsa CI for new packages Carles Pina i Estany <carles@pina.cat> - 2023-08-18 16:20 +0200
        Re: Package testing with Salsa CI for new packages Paul Boddie <paul@boddie.org.uk> - 2023-08-18 19:10 +0200
          Re: Package testing with Salsa CI for new packages Carles Pina i Estany <carles@pina.cat> - 2023-08-18 20:00 +0200
            Re: Package testing with Salsa CI for new packages Paul Boddie <paul@boddie.org.uk> - 2023-08-19 19:10 +0200
              Re: Package testing with Salsa CI for new packages Carles Pina i Estany <carles@pina.cat> - 2023-08-19 20:40 +0200
                Re: Package testing with Salsa CI for new packages Paul Boddie <paul@boddie.org.uk> - 2023-08-20 00:50 +0200
                Re: Package testing with Salsa CI for new packages Carles Pina i Estany <carles@pina.cat> - 2023-08-20 14:10 +0200
                Re: Package testing with Salsa CI for new packages Paul Boddie <paul@boddie.org.uk> - 2023-08-20 23:20 +0200
                Re: Package testing with Salsa CI for new packages Carles Pina i Estany <carles@pina.cat> - 2023-08-21 15:10 +0200
                Re: Package testing with Salsa CI for new packages Paul Boddie <paul@boddie.org.uk> - 2023-08-21 19:20 +0200
  Re: Package testing with Salsa CI for new packages Andrey Rakhmatullin <wrar@wrar.name> - 2023-08-18 18:30 +0200
    Re: Package testing with Salsa CI for new packages Paul Boddie <paul@boddie.org.uk> - 2023-08-18 19:20 +0200
      Re: Package testing with Salsa CI for new packages Andrey Rakhmatullin <wrar@wrar.name> - 2023-08-18 19:50 +0200

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