[debhelper-devel] Bug#744380: Bug#744380: dh_auto_test: set VERBOSE when running Automake tests

[Joey Hess]

Simon McVittie wrote:
> Recent versions of Automake have a new "test driver" that records test
> output in log files rather than printing it to stdout/stderr. It is
> not typically possible to retrieve these log files from the buildds.
> 
> If the environment variable VERBOSE is set to a non-empty value when
> running such tests, this output is suppressed for successful or
> skipped tests, but is sent to stdout for failed tests. This seems
> like "the best of both worlds" for maintainer and buildd use: the
> information is logged in exactly those cases where it is needed.
> 
> Please consider running Automake tests with VERBOSE=1.

This leaves the question of how to do it; 
debhelper knows when a package has a autoconf configure script, but does
not currently do anything to detect use of automake.

-- 
see shy jo
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