Hey Simon, this has been stuck for a while, so let's see how we can get at least some of this working.
Simon McVittie [2014-04-04 20:42 +0100]: > Not quite: it can be a shell command line (with multiple words). The > idea was that you can do > > Interpreter: dbus-run-session -- env XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=$ADTTMP -- > > to wrap the test in both dbus-run-session and env. Perhaps this is > over-engineering and I should be using debian/tests/environment.sh > (containing that command-line + "$@") as my Interpreter, but I think I recently refactored the test metadata parsing to be more easily extensible (as I added support for Ubuntu's click packages). During that course, the internal "test" representation can now hold either a path to an executable (as it always has) or a shell command. This isn't exposed yet for debian/tests/control, but it would be fairly simple now to write the above as Test-Command: <piece of shell> so you can put any adverbs or other wrappers directly into the control file. We could support multiple Test-Command: lines in each paragraph so that you can still have a common Restrictions:/Depends etc, and of course being a shell command you can use globbing, `find`, etc. This has an obvious semantics, and with a shell command you should be able to do pretty much anything. Does that suit your needs? > > * Read tests from a file: > > > > Tests: < debian/tests/testlist > > If it can be a file in the filesystem, I think that would be fine - > packagers of GNOME stuff could arrange for it to be generated during > the build and installed alongside the *.test files. If not, the only > mechanism I can see for arranging for it to be generated would be to > repeat the entire package build, which seems a shame when the GNOME > installed-tests are specifically designed to not need that. If we actually need this, it's not too hard to implement now, but I wonder if there's a real-world use case for this already? > > * Globbing: > > > > Tests: glib*.test > > In GNOME installed-tests, the actual files of interest are > /usr/share/installed-tests/$PACKAGE/*.test and > /usr/share/installed-tests/$PACKAGE/**/*.test (using the rsync/zsh > notation where ** matches any number of levels of directories), so > there would need to be a way to say "cut off this prefix when naming > the tests". Likewise, it's now rather easy to implement, and perhaps even better than "Tests: <" from above? Thanks, Martin -- Martin Pitt | http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org)
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