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Subject: Re: Policy Change Proposal: Running the upstream test suite
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On July 29, 2024 3:14:33 PM UTC, PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel <frederic-emmanue=
l=2Epicca@synchrotron-soleil=2Efr> 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 t=
est
>> a random package in this way=2E
>
>Even if not minimal, at least correspond to the upstream declares depende=
ncies=2E
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>by 'declare' I am not even sure of the meaning=2E
>
>dependencies of the test can be different from the required installed one=
s=2E
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>Maybe we should  install only the python binaries and the dependencies ma=
rked <!nocheck>=2E
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>Is there a standard in the Python community for the test dependencies ?
>
As usual, there are several=2E

Scott K