[DRE-maint] Bug#637917: Bug#637917: Bug#637917: gem2deb: should integrate with autopkgtest / DEP8

[Lucas Nussbaum]

On 20/08/11 at 12:50 -0700, Antonio Terceiro wrote:
> Lucas Nussbaum escreveu isso aí:
> > Package: gem2deb
> > Version: 0.2.6
> > Severity: wishlist
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > It would be great if gem2deb made it easier to create packages that can
> > be tested by autopkgtest. See http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep8/
> > 
> > I don't have any specific idea about that, but it's something that we
> > should monitor, and for which we could be early adopters.
> 
> We could automatically generate a debian/tests/control in a way that
> gem2deb's test_runner is called with an argument that makes it run the
> automated tests in the packages without any $LOAD_PATH manipulation, so
> that the tests would run against the installed code.

I'm wondering whether we should copy the tests to a temporary place, to
avoid LOAD_PATH manipulations with idioms such as:
$:.unshift '../lib'

- Lucas