Hi Omar,
> Is there some way to identify which packages which have built in tests?
Unfortunately there is no canonical or general way to identify
Debian packages that "run" a testuite.
Not only will many packages will always tests as part of their
build, there are a myriad of ways in which the various Debian
build systems will attempt locate and run tests.
Just as a concrete example, the "debian/rules" package for
countless packages is merely:
#!/usr/bin/make -f
%:
dh $@
.. which will automatically look for a Makefile (or similar) and
then magically work out whether there is a "tests" target, etc. etc.
There are parallel ones for Python, Go, CMake, etc. etc. Even if we
could list them all, I am sure we would be missing 50% of them.
Furthermore, some test failures are deliberately ignored for good
reasons so knowing that a package "had" a testsuite would not make
running those tests particularly meanintful.
What, in more detail, are you trying to achieve by identifying
packages with tests? I suspect there may be a better solution.
Regards,
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