> Making sure the installed code works. I expect the same :)
> But also you should understand that what you want to do is very different > from running the test suite, as you explicitly don't want to install deps > needed for running it. I want to run the same test suite (which is most often provided by the upstream in order to test the package), during the build and as installed. but @builddep@ are not the dependency in order to run the test as installed but during the build. I need to check that my python-<package> dependencies and the specific tests dependencies is a working subset of @builddep@ for these tests. Am I clear ? > That doesn't check that the installed code also works, and also it only > runs when the package is built, not later, e.g. when deps are updated. > None of this is specific to Python, both "build-time tests" and > "autopkgtests" exist in other packages, and it's also useful to have > autopkgtests run build-time tests there. I agreed that sometime running the same test during the build and as-installed is our best option. Fred
