Title: Debian source testing framework
Status: Draft
Author: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
Last-Change: 2006-09-03
Debbug: 41902


debian/control: Optional depends fields
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---X<-------------------
Test-Depends
Test-Depends-Indep
---X<-------------------

Introducing new dependencies may be overkill, but some programs may
requiere another ones to be tested properly. This fields must be
made optional as not all programs with testsuits will need special
dependencies. Also this will have to be implemented but the code can
be taken from the Build-Depends* handling.

debian/rules: Example code
==========================

---X<-------------------
export DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE  ?= $(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE)
export DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE ?= $(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE)

build-testsuit: build
	# Build any tests requiered

test-arch: build-testsuit
	ifeq ($(DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE), $(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE))
	  # Test the program(s)
	else
	  echo "Cross compiled program: cannot test"
	  exit 1
	endif

test-indep: build-testsuit
	# Test the program(s)

test: test-arch test-indep
---X<-------------------

The test targets should perform all configuration and testing in a
non-interactive way. Thus allowing massively testing all the archive.

This can be recomended and later introduced in the policy. The various
package 'debianizator' programs could add this in their templates to
extend its use for newer packages.