On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 12:52:47PM +0300, mer...@debian.org wrote:
> On 2020-06-17 08:34, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > You need to blame me about this. I consider it a good idea if users can
> > reproduce the tests on their local machines and the tests usually can
> > nicely serve as usage examples of the programs. However, to not bloat
> > the binary packages to much the example data should go to a separate
> > binary package (if the data are large compared to the real binary).
>
> This makes perfect sense, I did not think about that. Thanks for the
> explanation!
We have a packaging template[1] featuring a
debian/README.test
debian/tests/run-unit-test
which we usually ship in packages to inform users about their
option to run the test suite.
Hope this helps
Andreas.
[1] https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/community/package_template
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