Re: Help Required : Add autopkgtest for atropos

[Mohd Bilal]

Nilesh Patra <nil...@debian.org> wrote:
>On Mon, Apr 04, 2022 at 04:58:53PM -0000, Mohd Bilal wrote:
>&gt; I would like to add autopkgtest for atropos[1] but I&#39;m stuck with 
>some .pyx files that the tests import from.
>&gt; I guess the tests require these C extensions to be built before running 
>the test. I&#39;ve tried building[2] the extensions
>&gt; using `$py setup.py build_ext --inplace` but it didn&#39;t work out. Can 
>anyone guide on how to move forward?
>
>Usually you would want to run the autopkgtests in a tempdir rather than 
>inplace, since you want to
>check whether the &quot;installed&quot; package works or not, and not the 
>source tree.
>Simple solution is to copy the tests dir to a tempdir and run the tests there.
>I did not do that for your previous package because the test structure was 
>messy and
>was failing on copying the test dirs.
>
>But even after doing so tests were failing since the package did not build the 
>extensions for
>all supported py versions, it rather built only the default one 
>(_align.cpython-39-x86_64-linux-gnu.so)
>so we needed to change the B-D from python3-dev to python3-all-dev, after 
>which the package got green on
>autopkgtests.
>
>Please take a look at my commits.
>

Ok I'll make use of the tempdir for running the tests and Thank you for your 
detailed explanation.

>Best,
>Nilesh