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

[Sébastien Villemot]

On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 05:46:40PM +0200, Rafael Laboissière wrote:
> Sébastien Villemot <sebastien at debian.org> [2017-08-26 22:14]:

> > 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.

The testsuite itself is indeed extracted from the *.m files under inst/,
but this is not necessarily the case of the tested functions.

The problem comes from this line in check-pkg:

 echo "addpath (genpath ([pwd(),'/debian']));" > $tmp

This means that if any *.m file with the same name as a tested function is
under the debian/ directory, it that file that will be tested, not the version
installed under /usr/share/octave.

Again, this is a problem only if the source tree has been built, otherwise
there is no *.m file under debian/ (or maybe just check.m or something similar).

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