[Python-apps-team] Bug#930488: mercurial: Include tests/run-tests.py from Mercurial sources in Debian package

[Faheem Mitha]

Package: mercurial
Version: 5.0-1
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,

The Evolve Mercurial extension has a third-party Debian package. It's
not packaged or distributed by Debian. It's part of upstream
sources. The development version of Evolve is at
https://bitbucket.org/octobus/evolve-devel.

The Evolve tests are run using Mercurial's test runner, namely the
file `tests/run-tests.py` in the Mercurial sources. And the tests are
run by default as part of the Evolve Debian build.

The current situation is that if a user wants to run the Evolve tests,
he/she has to download the Mercurial sources, and point the Debian
build to those sources to get access to the test runner. Which is
rather manual. Otherwise, the tests will fail to run.

So a better solution would be to include `tests/run-tests.py` as part
of the Debian package. Since the Evolve Debian package has a runtime
dependency on the Debian Mercurial package, the location of
tests/run-tests.py in the Debian Mercurial package could then be
hard-wired into Evolve's `debian/rules`. It could probably be
installed in the mercurial-common package, at
`/usr/share/mercurial/tests/run-tests.py`.

Regards, Faheem Mitha

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.0
  APT prefers testing-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/6 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages mercurial depends on:
ii  libc6             2.28-10
ii  mercurial-common  5.0-1
ii  python            2.7.16-1
ii  ucf               3.0038+nmu1

Versions of packages mercurial recommends:
ii  openssh-client  1:7.9p1-10

Versions of packages mercurial suggests:
ii  kdiff3  1.7.90-3
pn  qct     <none>

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