* Josselin Mouette <j...@debian.org> [2009-03-02 16:21:20 +0100]: > Le lundi 02 mars 2009 à 15:48 +0100, Vincent Bernat a écrit : > > I ask this because I have many packages that use unittests after the > > build. I add /var/lib/python-support to PYTHONPATH and launch those > > tests. Because the path has changed, this does not work any more. > > > > You suggest to run those tests against the sources instead. However, the > > main interests of those tests for me is to check that the binary package > > works as expected. For example, if setup.py (or debian/rules) forgets to > > ship one file, this would go unseen if unittests are run against the > > sources. > > In this case, you should run the unit tests from the directory where you > install the modules, before running dh_pysupport.
Note that the only way to accurately test that installing the binary package will yield a correctly-working installation is to actually install the binary package and run the unit tests against the installed package; build-time tests will not be able to detect things like problems with postinst scripts and so on. -- mithrandi, i Ainil en-Balandor, a faer Ambar
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