Hi Niels, On Fri, 2017-03-24 at 05:06 +0000, Niels Thykier wrote: > Hi Lucas, > > Thanks for working on improving lintian. :) > > Just adding the field (without having a d/tests/control file) > triggers > another tag, so that in itself is not an option. :)
I meant you probably should have a functional test suite but it is not an obligation. If you do not have a d/t/control and your package is not maintained within a team that already implemented some autopkgtest "wrapper" nothing happens. > But what you can do > is to add a tests/control file to the "templates" directories in > t/templates/tests and let dpkg-source add the field for us. > We probably also need to do something for t/templates/source for > but I > recommend starting with getting the tests in t/tests to work. > > For your test (and the other tests in t/tests/testsuite-*), we will > need > a script to wipe the debian/tests directory. I think you want a > "pre_build" script for that (please see t/tests/README for more > information). > Great. Thanks for your tips, that is exactly the kind of solution that I was looking for :) I'll open a bug and send my patch soonish. Cheers. -- Lucas Kanashiro
