Bug#1139439: dh-elpa: integration tests

Sean Whitton <[email protected]> Tue, 09 Jun 2026 09:58:08 +0100

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Xiyue Deng [08/Jun  6:36pm -07] wrote:
> Package: dh-elpa
> Version: 2.1.9
> Severity: wishlist
>
> I have modified and adapted the integration tests from dh-make-elpa to
> work in dh-elpa. The tests work in a similar fashion as dh-make-elpa: in
> a template repo that provides a minimal-ish set of files required for
> dh_elpa command, run the command, and compare the output with an
> expected repository, and check whether there are any diff. I hope this
> provides a way to easily verify changes to the dh_elpa (and dh-elpa.el)
> utility, especially debian/*.substvars to check whether the generated
> "misc:Depends" and "elpa:Depends" are expected.
>
> During implementation, I found some limitation of how the "dh_elpa"
> command works and used some workarounds to make it work.
>
> * The "dh_elpa" perl script uses global path that assumes a installed
>   dh-elpa is available. However, the build time test needs to run from
>   the source tree. As a result I extended the dh_elpa script to allow
>   referencing files from the source tree (as well as other tweaks) to
>   make it work during build time. The changes are guarded by a
>   "--test-source-root" parameter.
>
> * For multiple file packages, dh_elpa will create a tarball which cannot
>   be compared with "diff" directly (which bremner had warned me before).
>   For the time being, I just skip the tarball files as the unpacked
>   directory is also available in the generated templates so their
>   contents are still part of the comparisons.
>
> I hope the diff tests can give more confidence when modifying dh_elpa,
> especially for testing ideas like in Bug#1138884.
>
> The changes are in an "integration-test" branch[1], and the diff against
> master branch can be seen here[2]. An overview of how the tests work can
> be found at the README.org[3].

I think you should try to cut down the Perl deps.  Most of those aren't
really necessary, I used them for the dh-make-elpa test suite because I
didn't know much Perl at the time.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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