[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#732945: Debian-Bug#732945: python-csb autopkg test always fails

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Ivan,

many thanks for your quick reply.

On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 12:39:46PM +0000, Ivan Kalev wrote:
> Michael's address has changed indeed --- the correct one is mhabeck at gwdg.de.

Thanks - updated the address in our packaging metadata.
 
> The problem here is that these are not intermediate results, but rather
> static test files that need to be installed once and cached for future use.
> So a temp directory won't work here I guess. What do you think about
> storing these files in "~/csb-test-files" when the install dir is not
> write-accessible? We can implement that easily.

Hmmm, I'm not sure what you mean by "cached for future use".  We would
like to run the test-suite in the package build process which is usually
done in a minimalistic chroot environment and there is only root as
user.  This environment is deleted once the package is built (and the
test has passed).  I'm not really sure how this fits your imagination of
data used in the future.
 
> By the way, this is probably an issue only when the PyPI package is
> installed with sudo (which is not at all necessary when doing this type of
> installation) and the test suite is useful mostly for developers, who are
> supposed to checkout the repository anyway (rather than installing the
> package). So I hope that the impact of this bug is not big.

No, it is not really big.  We could even skip the test completely.
However, we are always keen on verifying the functionality of some
software we are bundling as Debian packages.  Thus we try to run any
test that is available and makes sense.  If you think it does not
make any sense this is no problem and we will disable it (which would
close the bug report as well).

> Best regards,
> Ivan

Thanks again for your response

     Andreas.

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