Bug#976669: lintian: please warn about autopkgtests that test rebuilt source, not as-installed, where possible

2020-12-23 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Wed, 23 Dec 2020, Andrius Merkys wrote: > false-positives. Even dh_auto_configure appears to be used legitimately dh_auto_configure is the one I’d expect to be used (with autotools). dh_auto_build is the one that raises red flags, and for *some* buildsystems dh_auto_test invokes a

Bug#976669: lintian: please warn about autopkgtests that test rebuilt source, not as-installed, where possible

2020-12-07 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Mon, 7 Dec 2020, Andrius Merkys wrote: > In general, autopkgtests should not depend on build tools: compilers, Not entirely true; sometimes, tests need to be built but hopefully against the installed code, only compiling the tests themselves. I’m not entirely sure about pointing that out as

Bug#976669: lintian: please warn about autopkgtests that test rebuilt source, not as-installed, where possible

2020-12-06 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Package: lintian Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-j...@lists.debian.org Hi lintian people, the request is, of course, not generally solvable. However, for a few buildsystems and ways to “test”, this is possible, and these should be warned about (probably at Error level even). It all