[git-buildpackage] git-buildpackage: Test cases for non-native package

Ben Finney ben+debian at benfinney.id.au
Fri Feb 19 00:39:27 CET 2016


On 18-Feb-2016, Ben Finney wrote:
> When I add a test case for the overlay mode, it will be based on
> those changes.

Writing the test case is difficult. The existing code does not appear
able to distinguish “import the Debian changes” as a separate action
*without* the upstream code.

So I'm not clear how to use the existing unit test examples to set up
a repository that has only ‘debian/’ committed to the repo.

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Ben Finney <ben at benfinney.id.au>
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