Hi Julian (2024.09.08_21:33:49_+0000) > > I built 6440 packages build-depending on dh-python in one way or > > another. 1483 failed, and 1124 of them say "NO TESTS RAN" in the logs. > > My guess is that most of these 1124 have no tests at all, rather than > having a misconfigured setup. A unittest is the pybuild default test > framework, unittest is used and fails to find any tests, hence all of > these failures.
Yes, almost certainly. > > 4. We could make this failure opt-in in dh-python. Maybe via an explicit > > --test-unittest option that selects the unittest runner. If you don't > > explicitly select this runner, you'd get an attempt to run tests by > > with unittest, and no failure if no tests are found. > > I like option 4 for the above reason. But implementing this would > mean that all of the packages that currently *do* use unittest > (intentionally, but without having to code it explicitly as it's the > default) would suddenly not have any tests running until they > proactively add --test-unittest or set PYBUILD_TEST_UNITTEST = 1 or > similar. This seems like an unfortunate consequence. I would leave unittest as the default runner, but without missing test detection. That's a slightly unexpected behaviour, but it makes the default case work. Downside is that you have to opt-in to missing test detection. Maybe we can have a lintian tag for that? Stefano -- Stefano Rivera http://tumbleweed.org.za/ +1 415 683 3272
