[2019-02-04 16:08] Mattia Rizzolo <[email protected]>
> On Mon, Feb 04, 2019 at 11:22:36AM +0000, Dmitry Bogatov wrote:
> > While working on patch to include debrequest into devscripts (#841270),
> > I discovered that I can't proceed due failing test suite.
> >
> > What is more interesting, test suite from v2.19.2 tag can fail on my
> > machine for multitude reasons:
>
> On way to go about this, is build on a chroot.
> I'd kind of expect to do that anyway.
>
> Honestly I don't think I ever tried to run the whole devscripts'
> testsuite outside of a chroot..
Maybe it worth documenting this or adding smoke check? Like
if test -e ~/.gitignore ; then
fail "unsupported configuration. Build in schroot instead."
fi
It is quite unusual, that test suite is affected by something outside of
source package root and $PATH.
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