Re: pbuilder and debhelper: Test suite run before dependencies satisfied

2008-09-12 Thread Ben Finney
"Paul Wise" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Howdy mentors, > Uh, wrong list? This is debian-devel. Whoops, yes, you're right. I'll try again over at debian-mentors. -- \ “When I get real bored, I like to drive do

Re: pbuilder and debhelper: Test suite run before dependencies satisfied

2008-09-12 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Ben Finney [Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:14:54 +1000]: > How is this supposed to work? Running test suites indeed normally needs the binary's dependencies to be installed. This works out of the box for eg. C binaries/packages because these dependencies will be already installed in the chroot (for a C bi

Re: pbuilder and debhelper: Test suite run before dependencies satisfied

2008-09-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Howdy mentors, Uh, wrong list? This is debian-devel. > Why does 'dh build' attempt to run the package's test suite, but > doesn't satisfy the build dependencies before doing so? How can this > be made to work within a 'pbui

pbuilder and debhelper: Test suite run before dependencies satisfied

2008-09-12 Thread Ben Finney
Howdy mentors, Why does 'dh build' attempt to run the package's test suite, but doesn't satisfy the build dependencies before doing so? How can this be made to work within a 'pbuilder' environment? I'm packaging a Python application that has a unit test suite. This unit test suite, naturally, imp