Bug#870249: pkg-perl-autopkgtest: look at 'tests' in Module::Install based Makefile.PL files

[Niko Tyni]

Control: severity -1 normal
Control: forcemerge -1 870334

On Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 11:58:43AM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 01:00:20PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> > Package: pkg-perl-autopkgtest
> > Version: 0.37
> > Severity: wishlist
> > 
> > Apparently Module::Install supports a 'tests' line in Makefile.PL
> > listing the tests to be run at build time. It would be nice if
> > smoke.t looked at that instead of needing duplicated information in
> > debian/tests/pkg-perl/smoke-tests .
> > 
> > The package where I encountered this is libmousex-types-perl.
> 
> A more general way to do this would be as discussed in #870334 :
> 
>  perl Makefile.PL && make -n -p | sed -n 's/^TEST_FILES = //p'
> 
> Possibly these two bugs should be merged but not doing that
> quite yet.

Merging now, don't see much use in a more specific fix.
-- 
Niko