* Barry Warsaw: " Re: python-relatorio: where to put the test suite?" (Wed, 9 Jul 2014 09:13:17 -0400):
> On Jul 09, 2014, at 12:55 PM, Mathias Behrle wrote:
>
> >relatorio has a test suite containing some images, documents and templates,
> >which according to FHS should belong under /usr/share.
> >
> >Short question:
> >
> >- does this justify a common package, from which linking to the
> >python2 and python3 package
> >
> >- or is it just preferable to move the tests to docs (on dh_install)
> >
> >- or is there a better solution, which I am currently not aware of?
>
> Generally, I try to maintain whatever structure upstream has. E.g. if the
> tests are shipped as a subpackage of the main package, I generally avoid
> splitting those up. E.g. if you have python{,3}-foo providing the foo
> package, and upstream ships foo/tests/*.py, I just leave them like that.
> Sometimes they contain test data, but I won't move them elsewhere.
Ok. I think, this applies to my case. I will go then for a lintian override.
> For various specific reasons, I'll sometimes split the tests out, but it's
> usually more effort than it's worth IMO. It can make more sense though if the
> tests are not shipped as a subpackage of the main package.
>
> If you do split things up, you might want to add DEP-8 tests to make sure once
> installed, everything works the way it should.
Thanks for your input, Piotr and Barry!
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Mathias Behrle
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