On 14. 06. 21 19:35, Benjamin Beasley wrote:
I’m still in favor of running every test that is even vaguely practical in
%check, but upstream Python packaging practices are wildly diverse (arguably, a
mess) and it seems like a strongly worded SHOULD with a fallback of “trust the
packager” would be a better approach than forcing packagers to build
complicated CI configurations and go to great lengths to implement and debug
network-connected tests they cannot reproduce locally.
I don't disagree with you.
However I think we should at least strictly require a smoke test (such as
%python3 -c "import foo, foo.bar") in such cases, for reasons described below...
It’s also not clear to me why the Python guidelines should be so much stricter
than the overall Fedora guidelines
(https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/#_test_suites) in
this area.
As written elsewhere in this thread, because we regularly got bitten by pure
Python packages without tests.
With Python packages, when there is no (useful) %check, the build basically
just copy-pastes some files around and bytecompiles them. If there are no
syntax errors, the bytecompilation always succeeds.
Python packages without tests always cause trouble when we measure impact of
our changes. E.g. when we continuously rebuild packages with the next Python
release, pure Python packages with incompatibilities but without %check always
succeed the build, but they break other packages.
Example Python 3.10 failures that only manifest themselves in the depending
packages because %check is non-existent or commented out:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1968737
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1969311
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1919789
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1926112
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