Dear Jonathan,
In 1.2 upstream added a test suite. We should run it during build
(cd common && $(MAKE) test) but it needs to be able to write to the
home
directory, which is disabled on Debian auto-builders. Need to find
a solution to that.
I would like to suggest to save time and resources and not fixing that
Issue.
The test infrastructure of BIT will be modified to a modern and more
python-recommended solution (src-layout of the project folder and
"tests" folder outside the package folder). To be honest this won't
happen early because currently there are other more urgent problems for
BIT that need to be fixed before restructuring the whole project
layout/infrastructure (which would breaking everything in the first
place).
And "writing to home" seems like a bad workaround/hack. A unittest
shouldn't write to a real filesystem. And IMHO (personaly not as
upstream) distributors should support such an unusual solution. This is
a problem that I also will take into account at upstream.
I vote for closing this issue. Upstream will contact you when it is time
to restructure the project infrastructure including the test suite.
