[Fedora-packaging] should I include tests in the package?

[Paul Howarth]

On 04/30/2012 02:57 PM, Jon Ciesla wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 8:56 AM, Jon Ciesla<limburgher at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 8:50 AM, "Germán A. Racca"
>> <german.racca at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> Hi list:
>>>
>>> I'm the packager of APLpy: http://aplpy.github.com/
>>>
>>> I'm going to update it to a new version, which comes with a set of tests,
>>> but I'm not sure about what to do with them. I asked upstream and the answer
>>> is:
>>>
>>> "The tests are there for us to diagnose any issues related to specific
>>> dependency versions and platforms, and to make sure that we don't
>>> break anything when making changes. It would be useful if you include
>>> them so that we can ask users to run them if they are having issues we
>>> can't reproduce, but you don't need to run the tests as part of the
>>> build/setup."
>>>
>>> I'm still not sure. Should I include them in the package?
>>
>> Unless they impose huge build deps or something, run them in make check.
>
> To more directly answer your question, yes, include and run tests
> whenever possible. :)

Beware when including tests of introducing file conflicts, like in 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=797813

Paul.