Package: dh-elpa Version: 2.1.9 Severity: wishlist I have modified and adapted the integration tests from dh-make-elpa to work in dh-elpa. The tests work in a similar fashion as dh-make-elpa: in a template repo that provides a minimal-ish set of files required for dh_elpa command, run the command, and compare the output with an expected repository, and check whether there are any diff. I hope this provides a way to easily verify changes to the dh_elpa (and dh-elpa.el) utility, especially debian/*.substvars to check whether the generated "misc:Depends" and "elpa:Depends" are expected.
During implementation, I found some limitation of how the "dh_elpa" command works and used some workarounds to make it work. * The "dh_elpa" perl script uses global path that assumes a installed dh-elpa is available. However, the build time test needs to run from the source tree. As a result I extended the dh_elpa script to allow referencing files from the source tree (as well as other tweaks) to make it work during build time. The changes are guarded by a "--test-source-root" parameter. * For multiple file packages, dh_elpa will create a tarball which cannot be compared with "diff" directly (which bremner had warned me before). For the time being, I just skip the tarball files as the unpacked directory is also available in the generated templates so their contents are still part of the comparisons. I hope the diff tests can give more confidence when modifying dh_elpa, especially for testing ideas like in Bug#1138884. The changes are in an "integration-test" branch[1], and the diff against master branch can be seen here[2]. An overview of how the tests work can be found at the README.org[3]. Reviews and suggestions welcome! [1] https://salsa.debian.org/emacsen-team/dh-elpa/-/tree/integration-test?ref_type=heads [2] https://salsa.debian.org/emacsen-team/dh-elpa/-/compare/master...integration-test?from_project_id=18920 [3] https://salsa.debian.org/emacsen-team/dh-elpa/-/blob/integration-test/t/README.org?ref_type=heads -- System Information: Debian Release: forky/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (200, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 7.0.10+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages dh-elpa depends on: ii debhelper 13.32 ii emacs 1:30.2+1-3 ii emacs-gtk [emacs] 1:30.2+1-3 ii libarray-utils-perl 0.5-3 ii libconfig-tiny-perl 2.30-1 ii libdebian-source-perl 0.133 ii libdpkg-perl 1.23.7 ii libfile-find-rule-perl 0.35-1 ii libtext-glob-perl 0.11-3 ii perl 5.40.1-8 dh-elpa recommends no packages. dh-elpa suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- Regards, Xiyue Deng
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