Packages with missing %check

[Michael Schwendt]

On Tue, 25 Feb 2014 16:32:37 +0200, Alexander Todorov wrote:

> > Well, your check may be too simplified. I've had a look at
> >
> >    /mnt/fedora/l/libetpan-1.1-7.fc20.src.rpm
> >
> > and it contains a "tests" subdir with a few test programs, but no test-suite
> > to run automatically.
> >
> 
> I said it didn't have a %check section in the spec file, not that it was missing 
> tests. Hope its more clear now.

Hmmm, if mere existance of a "tests" subdir is considered as "very likely
to have a test suite", that puts a lot on the TODO list to avoid such
false positives.

 | missing a %check section in their spec files but are very likely
 | to have a test suite
 
> Whether or not the contents of the tests/ directory is a bunch of simple scripts 
> to run or a proper test suite I can't tell without a manual inspection.

Hence my suggestion to classify your findings a bit based on what your
checker script has examined.