[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#761672: node-utilities build-depends on itself

[Jérémy Lal]

Le mardi 16 septembre 2014 à 00:26 +0800, Thomas Goirand a écrit :
> Package: node-utilities
> Version: 0.0.31-1
> Severity: serious
> 
> The test-suite of node-utilities uses node-jake, which itself uses
> node-utilities. So, effectively, node-utilities is build-depending on
> itself, which should never happen, and which by the way isn't even
> declared in the debian/control file in an explicit way.
> 
> To effectively rebuild node-utilities on a system where node-jake isn't
> available (yet), one has to manually disable the unit test or do some
> kind of hacks.
> 
> Please fix the dependency loop.
> 
> Also, please respect the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. You should add something like
> this:
> 
> override_dh_auto_test:
> ifeq (,$(findstring nocheck, $(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS)))
> 	<some-tests>
> endif

Sure, but does that mean dh_auto_test itself does not respect
DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck ?

Jérémy.