Hello, On 2021-06-21 08:16, Andreas Tille wrote: >>> Repository data is changed during the tests, which I dislike, but ... >>> well ... we need to get somewhere. >> * And I dislike this as well, so I simply removed the build time test, and >> running that as autopkgtest. IMO doing this is even better since this >> tests that the binary is actually installed. > Another way would be to do some > > override_dh_auto_test: > cp -a testdata testdata_save > dh_auto_test > rm -rf testdata > mv testdata_save testdata > > or something like this. While I agree that autopkgtest is more important > than build time test both falvours make sense. Build time tests are very important for apriori (pre-upload) detection of breakages introduced by updates/modifications of reverse dependencies. ratt loses much of its power without these tests.
I really like Andreas's suggestion for preserving the original test data. It should do the trick. Best, Andrius
