On Tue, 25 Nov 2025 02:08:00 +0100 Santiago Vila <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2025 at 12:55:01AM +0100, Lorenzo wrote: > > > Is there a way to access the uncleaned build tree from autopkgtest? > > Yes, you can use this in debian/tests/control: > > Restrictions: build-needed > > and the package will be built before running the autopkgtests. Thanks, this is what I was looking for. Best, Lorenzo > > In such case, however, you have to be careful and make sure that you > are testing the installed programs, not the just-built programs. > > In some cases, symlinking the built programs to their counterparts > in /usr/bin works well enough. > > > when I do so, the test fails because it uses two tiny C build > > artifacts (~40KiB) that are build only to be used in the testsuite > > and are not part of the deb package. > > Beware: the "build-needed" keyword above builds the program with the > nocheck build profile. What you could do here is to make sure those > tiny build artifacts are always built, even when using the nocheck > build profile. > > Hope this helps. >
