[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1039499: python3-dbus-tests: Please add python3-tap to Recommends

[Thomas Uhle]

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Hello Simon,

you are right of course, the tests also work if python3-tap is not 
installed.

It has been quite some time since I wrote this ticket.  So IIRC, the 
output "(tap module not available)" had been the initial impulse for 
it, and I (myself) basically prefer if packages have dependencies on 
all those packages that are needed for full functionality (in one way 
or another, that is "Depends", "Recommends", or "Suggests").

Obviously, in a TAP-only aware environment (e.g., Perl) without 
python3-tap, you would just see the final result in a summary: 100% 
passing or failing instead of anything in between [0, 100%] if only 
some of the unit tests fail.  The reason for it is the implemented 
work-around in dbus_test_utils.py.  Also I kind of like the clarity 
of the summary that Perl's Test::Harness provides.

If you are worried about automatically pulling in the indirectly 
dependent packages python3-more-itertools and python3-yaml, then 
maybe adding "Suggests: python3-tap" instead could be good compromise.

Best regards,

Thomas Uhle



On Thu, 13 Mar 2025, Simon McVittie wrote:

> On Mon, 26 Jun 2023 at 19:55:56 +0200, Thomas Uhle wrote:
> > dbus-python already build-depends on python3-tap.  Could you please 
> > consider to let python3-dbus-tests recommend python3-tap as well.
>
> What advantage would there be to users or developers if this Recommends was 
> present?
>
> The autopkgtest already depends on python3-tap, and the tests themselves 
> gracefully fall back to basic pass/fail output if python3-tap is not 
> installed.
>
>    smcv
>