Hi, I maintain libevdev, which includes tests which need to be run as root in the built source tree:
./configure sudo make check Obviously this means I can't run the tests during the standard build, but Michael Terry from Canonical pointed out that DEP8 tests would be appropriate (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libevdev/+bug/1287128). I tried the following: ==> debian/tests/control <== Tests: check Restrictions: needs-root build-needed rw-build-tree Depends: @builddeps@ ==> debian/tests/check <== #!/bin/sh make -C ${0%/*}/../.. check A local adt-run using an unstable chroot or qemu works, whether run from the built or unbuilt source tree. But the tests fail on ci.debian.net; as far as I can tell it doesn't try to build the source package before running the tests, so they fail (see http://ci.debian.net/data/unstable-amd64/packages/libe/libevdev/2014-03-14.log for the last run). Has anyone else come across this situation? Should I just rebuild the source myself in the test, in ADTTMP? Regards, Stephen
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