[Pkg-octave-devel] First try on autopkgtest for OF packages

[Rafael Laboissière]

 Sébastien Villemot <sebastien at debian.org> [2017-08-26 22:14]:

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> I think there is another issue: the testing code creates temporary files in the 
> current directory. But this is not allowed 
> (/usr/share/doc/autopkgtest/README.package-tests.rst.gz says that there may be 
> no write access to the directory of the source tree).

Thanks for raising the issue, I was not aware of it. I will take a 
look at that.

> My final concern is about the *.m files that are actually tested. If 
> the source tree has not been built, then the test routines rightly test 
> the files under /usr/share/octave. But if the source tree is built, 
> then it tests files under debian/ (see the addpath in check-pkg).

Actually, it tests now the *.m files under inst/, as in version 1.4.6 
of octave-pkg-dev (see my commit e3e12be).  Anyway, this has no 
incidence on the issue you are raising.

> It is not clear to me whether autopkgtest may execute or not in a built 
> tree, but this needs to be checked.

I guess that autopkgtest is designed to be run in both situations, but 
I am not sure.  At any rate, the automatic tests reported on ci.d.o 
seem to be run from non-built source trees.

Rafael