Xiyue Deng <[email protected]> writes:

> Hi Sean,
>
> Sean Whitton <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> If David would like to review and merge this I won't object.  At the
>> present time however I'm sceptical as to whether integration tests of
>> this form will help us all that much with dh_elpa bugs.
>
> Please allow me to try to show the usefulness of the tests using the
> filtering change as an example. With the proposed integration tests, we
> can be sure that the change that removes the built-in addon filtering is
> actually working by looking at the diff of the output files that the
> built-in addons are showing up in generated files after the change, e.g.
> "elpa-cl-lib (>= 0.1)". And it also helps us notice potential
> regressions caused by future changes if we see them getting removed
> accidentally.

As something more concrete: this commit[1] shows the diff after dh-elpa
2.2.0 release, and you can be sure that dh-elpa stops filtering built-in
addon info correctly.

[1] 
https://salsa.debian.org/emacsen-team/dh-elpa/-/commit/2fd65da7adc51e6baba14b507380a6dc096b4f53

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Regards,
Xiyue Deng

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