On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 16:08:40 -0400 Joey Hess <jo...@debian.org> wrote: > Barry Warsaw wrote: > > I'd be happy to write a little helper script (probably in Python?) which > > could > > make the checks I enumerate above. You could then call that script and use > > the return code to see if you should do `python setup.py test -vv` or > > fallback > > to what it does now. > > I suppose that could be put in an appropriate package. Not sure what > would be appropriate but not debhelper. And debhelper could use it. I'm > not really thrilled by adding more heuristics. If you're working on this > upstream it would be ever so much better if "python setup.py test" > simply exited nonzero when there's no test suite. > > -- > see shy jo
Hi Barry, Is there an update to the situation here? Can we assume that the test target is (generally) always available ? (even if we limit it to just python3 related calls). Thanks, ~Niels