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Bug#788667: lintian: suggest adding DEP-8 tests when an automake installcheck-local target is detected



On Sun, 14 Jun 2015 10:11:28 +0800 Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> wrote:
> Package: lintian
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Automake allows for testing of an installation via a Makefile target
> called installcheck-local[1]. There are a number[2] of packages in the
> archive that implement this feature. It would be good if all of them had
> DEP-8[3] tests that called the installcheck-local targets. Please detect
> installcheck-local targets in make files named Makefile* and suggest
> adding a DEP-8 test when there are no DEP-8 tests already.
> 
> 1. https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Install-Tests.html#Install-Tests
> 2. https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=path:Makefile.am+installcheck-local:
> 3. http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep8/
> 
> -- 
> bye,
> pabs
> 
> https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
> 

Hi,

Assuming this is just a trivial "run target", wouldn't it be even better
if autopkgtests added support for this directly like it did with
pkg-perl tests (i.e. adding a "Testsuite: autopkgtest-automake" or so)?

Thanks,
~Niels


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