Upstream the following was recently accepted to allow installed-tests to work Without the source tree nearby. https://github.com/hughsie/libjcat/commit/d6dc3e90b0c805cc50bff9d1d1b87ff575e53769
> -----Original Message----- > From: Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org> > Sent: Saturday, March 28, 2020 3:29 PM > To: Debian Bug Tracking System > Subject: Bug#955259: libjcat: Please add consider adding autopkgtest > coverage > > > [EXTERNAL EMAIL] > > Source: libjcat > Version: 0.1.0-1 > Severity: wishlist > Tags: patch > Control: block -1 by 955258 > > I noticed that libjcat has GNOME-style installed-tests, which in principle > make it easy to add autopkgtest coverage, so I tried to contribute a > trivial patch to do so. Unfortunately, the installed-tests don't actually > work when run installed (they rely on the original source tree), so it > turned out to be less trivial than I'd hoped. > > I've attached patches, but the patch added in debian/patches should > probably be discussed with upstream. As well as making the test pass, it > also fixes a source of non-reproducibility. > > For it to pass, the test for libjcat-dev requires the patches I attached > to #955258. > > smcv