Your message dated Fri, 18 Apr 2025 07:00:11 -0500 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Closing old bug has caused the Debian Bug report #752609, regarding r-base-dev: Please provide a method to run upstream unit tests at package build time to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Source: r-base-dev Severity: normal Hello, since debhelper compatibility level 9 some automatic test is approached if upstream provides some tests suite in a default way. You can also add overrides to adapt to specific upstream way to run a test suite. Since for building R packages cdbs is used this is not done automatically. So I tried to find out a way how this can be done also with cdbs[1] but I did not got any response. Since I think we should really try to test packages * before uploaded * when beeing autobuilded I consider running the test suite as very important. Please try to provide a method in /usr/share/R/debian/r-cran.mk which does the testing or consider switching the build system for R packages to dh which has quite transparent features for testing. Kind regards and thanks for maintaining r-base-dev Andreas. [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2014/05/msg00218.html -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.5 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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--- Begin Message ---Per the discussion, closing this as not a valid bug for r-base. Package system extension can, and are, built as package. Examples for the test frameworks are testthat, tinytest, RUnit, ... all of which generalize the basic 'hook' of running what a package has in tests. None of this requires a change in R. Dirk -- dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | [email protected]
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