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

[Simon McVittie]

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

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers proposed-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.13-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages debhelper depends on:
ii  binutils    2.24-5
ii  dpkg        1.17.6
ii  dpkg-dev    1.17.6
ii  file        1:5.17-1
ii  man-db      2.6.7.1-1
ii  perl        5.18.2-2+b1
ii  po-debconf  1.0.16+nmu2

debhelper recommends no packages.

Versions of packages debhelper suggests:
pn  dh-make  <none>

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