[debhelper-devel] Bug#744380: dh_auto_test: set VERBOSE when running Automake tests

[Eric Dorland]

* Niels Thykier (niels at thykier.net) wrote:
> Control: reassign -1 debhelper,automake
> 
> On Sun, 13 Apr 2014 15:15:30 +0100 Simon McVittie <smcv at debian.org> wrote:
> > Package: debhelper
> > Version: 9.20140228
> > Severity: wishlist
> > 
> > Recent versions of Automake have a new "test driver" that records test
> > output in log files rather than printing it to stdout/stderr. It is
> > not typically possible to retrieve these log files from the buildds.
> > 
> > If the environment variable VERBOSE is set to a non-empty value when
> > running such tests, this output is suppressed for successful or
> > skipped tests, but is sent to stdout for failed tests. This seems
> > like "the best of both worlds" for maintainer and buildd use: the
> > information is logged in exactly those cases where it is needed.
> > 
> > Please consider running Automake tests with VERBOSE=1.
> > 
> > Regards,
> >     S
> > 
> > [...]
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On #debian-devel, it was proposed to have automake change the default to
> be more verbose on test failures.  Eric, what do you think of that idea? :)

Sounds like a reasonable idea to me, I don't perceive any problems
with it.

-- 
Eric Dorland <eric at kuroneko.ca>
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