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Re: Test suite in github but missing from pypi tarballs

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On 04/21/2016 04:10 PM, Edward Betts wrote:
> Recently I've come across some Python libraries that have a test suite in
> their github repo but don't include it in the tarball they upload to pypi.
> 
> Debian binary packages don't normally include the test suite.

Why? It's my view that it's a good idea to include it, if it is located
within the lib itself.

> Some Python
> library developers are treating the pypi releases in a similar way, as if
> they're just for deployment. They think anybody who needs the test suite is
> doing development and will clone from the github repo.
> 
> It is very useful to run the test suite when building a Debian package. It
> would be better if upstream would include the test suite in their release
> tarballs.
> 
> It is often just a one line change to MANIFEST.in to have the test suite
> included. If the tests are in a directory called 'tests', then this is the
> line that needs to added:
> 
>   recursive-include tests *.py

It's best that the test suite goes within the project. So if project is
called foo, then best is to get the test folder in foo/tests. This way,
you don't even need to fix the MANIFEST.in. Then you can even use it as
an autopkgtest thing.

> I've been sending github pull requests to encourage library authors to make
> this change.
> 
>   https://github.com/RPi-Distro/python-gpiozero/pull/284
>   https://github.com/john-kurkowski/tldextract/pull/97
> 
> You might want to take a few minutes to check any Python packages you've
> worked on, see if there is a test suite in the github repo that hasn't made it
> to the release tarball and send a pull request to fix it.

IMO, don't bother, and just re-generate a tarball from git, using "git
archive", which is my preferred way to use upstream sources.

Cheers,

Thomas Goirand (zigo)

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Test suite in github but missing from pypi tarballs Edward Betts <edward@4angle.com> - 2016-04-21 16:50 +0200
  Re: Test suite in github but missing from pypi tarballs Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org> - 2016-04-21 17:00 +0200
    Re: Test suite in github but missing from pypi tarballs Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org> - 2016-04-21 17:30 +0200
      Re: Test suite in github but missing from pypi tarballs Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org> - 2016-04-21 19:10 +0200
    Re: Test suite in github but missing from pypi tarballs Barry Warsaw <barry@debian.org> - 2016-04-21 19:40 +0200
  Re: Test suite in github but missing from pypi tarballs Tristan Seligmann <mithrandi@mithrandi.net> - 2016-04-21 17:20 +0200
    Re: Test suite in github but missing from pypi tarballs Fred Drake <fred@fdrake.net> - 2016-04-21 17:30 +0200
      Re: Test suite in github but missing from pypi tarballs Ian Cordasco <graffatcolmingov@gmail.com> - 2016-04-21 18:10 +0200
        Re: Test suite in github but missing from pypi tarballs Fred Drake <fred@fdrake.net> - 2016-04-21 18:20 +0200
          Source distribution is for building from source (was: Test suite in github but missing from pypi tarballs) Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-04-22 01:10 +0200
      Re: Test suite in github but missing from pypi tarballs Jeremy Stanley <fungi@yuggoth.org> - 2016-04-21 19:20 +0200
        Re: Test suite in github but missing from pypi tarballs Fred Drake <fdrake@gmail.com> - 2016-04-21 20:10 +0200
    Re: Test suite in github but missing from pypi tarballs Barry Warsaw <barry@debian.org> - 2016-04-21 19:40 +0200
      Re: Test suite in github but missing from pypi tarballs Tristan Seligmann <mithrandi@mithrandi.net> - 2016-04-22 07:20 +0200
    Re: Test suite in github but missing from pypi tarballs Brian May <bam@debian.org> - 2016-04-22 12:10 +0200
    Re: Test suite in github but missing from pypi tarballs Brian May <bam@debian.org> - 2016-04-22 12:10 +0200
  Re: Test suite in github but missing from pypi tarballs Edward Betts <edward@4angle.com> - 2016-04-22 12:50 +0200
    Re: Test suite in github but missing from pypi tarballs Edward Betts <edward@4angle.com> - 2016-04-23 12:40 +0200

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