Control: severity -1 wishlist
23.02.2024 16:58, Gregor Riepl wrote:
Package: python3-samba
Version: 2:4.19.5+dfsg-1
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
Dear Maintainer,
It looks like the python3-samba package installs some unit tests into
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/samba/tests
If this is the case, please exclude them from the package build. There is no
value in installing unit tests along with a runtime library (or, as in this
case, a Python module).
Lacking a way to exclude something from debian/install file, I don't
have a good way to do that. The tests should not be merely excluded,
it is part of samba-testsuite package.
samba-testsuite itself is a very questionable package, it has other
issues (like being non-reproducible as it embeds build paths in the
binary and has other problems in this area) and personally I don't see
a reason to ship this package in debian. If it were removed, this an
other problems would just go away. But some say it is useful. I dunno :)
/mjt
