Re: Questions about creating test files and workflow for BitSeq

Hello,

On 2025-04-11 00:37, Étienne Mollier wrote:
> If the package does not provide any .fasta file, and if you
> don't have any way to generate one, there are still several
> options.  I tend to favor repurposing example data from other
> packages.  To find the sort of file that I am after, I
> extensively use apt-file, e.g. for fasta files:
> 
> 	$ apt-file search --regex '.*\.fasta$' | less

+1. I have been following the same practice for a while now, most 
recently by adding autopkgtest for provean [1]. By reusing packaged 
files we keep the overhead to minimum, with a downside of having to 
adapt in case the dependency changes. I did not encounter many of such 
changes, though.

Best wishes,
Andrius

[1] 
https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/provean/-/blob/master/debian/tests/provean