On 15 July 2017 at 06:52, Andreas Tille <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 07:02:58PM +0100, Carnė Draug wrote: >> [...] >> I noticed that psortb is now on sid. However, that package seems to >> be broken. Not only it is missing libalgorithm-svm-perl it seems to >> be missing a bunch of other dependencies. I have enabled autopkgtest >> on it [2, 3] which will test each of the modules and will list the >> missing modules. > > Thanks a lot for this. Feel free to commit directly to the packaging > repository (I took over your commit meanwhile). I'm not that > comfortable with Perl tests. What would I need to do to run the tests > as build time test to force the build failing if the test does not pass? >
These tests are ran against the installed package and not during the build. I just call autopkgtest with the changes file after the build. The setup instructions are on the pkg-perl page [1] Carnë [1] https://pkg-perl.alioth.debian.org/autopkgtest.html#SETUP
