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

[Jon Ciesla]

On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 9:11 AM, "Germán A. Racca"
<german.racca at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 04/30/2012 10:57 AM, 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. :)
>
>
> Thanks Jon :)
>
> This is a Python package. Under what directory should I put them?

For users, probably in %doc.

> The tests ran fine in my computer[*], but what should I do in case of a
> negative outcome?

If they're in make check in the spec, if they fail, the RPM build will fail.

-J

> Germán.
>
> [*] $ python runtests.py
> =================== test session starts ====================
> platform linux2 -- Python 2.7.2 -- pytest-2.2.0
> collected 186 items
>
> tests/test_axis_labels.py ......
> tests/test_beam.py ................
> tests/test_colorbar.py .......
> tests/test_contour.py ..
> tests/test_downsample.py .
> tests/test_frame.py ..
> tests/test_grid.py .......
> tests/test_init_cube.py ............................
> tests/test_init_image.py
> ........................................................................
> tests/test_save.py ........................
> tests/test_scalebar.py ..........
> tests/test_tick_labels.py .....
> tests/test_ticks.py ......
>
> =============== 186 passed in 106.97 seconds ===============
>
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