On Fri, Jul 28, 2023 at 12:14:33PM +0000, c.bu...@posteo.jp wrote: > Hello, > > I'm upstream maintainer (but not founder) of "backintime". > > I realized that most of the tests in my test suite are integration or system > tests which are impossible to handle by Debians build server and testing > system (how do you name it?). > My package do use something like "./configure && make && make test && sudo > make install" to test and build. Works fine on a local Debian box. > > I would like to have an advice from you as DPT how I should separate my > tests into the two categories "run by debian" and "don't run by debian". In the context of DPT I would use pytest marks. For poorer test systems it's possible that there is no answer except splitting the tests into separate things and providing separate commands for running those.
> Another approach in my mind is asking for environment variables that might > exists on a Debian build box? I know this approach from TravisCI and > ReadTheDocs. You shouldn't check for Debian-specific envvars in upstream sources.
