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authorJoey Hess <joey@gnu.kitenet.net>2009-06-28 15:01:04 -0400
committerJoey Hess <joey@gnu.kitenet.net>2009-06-28 15:01:04 -0400
commite0ed03ff224ee3a8053094f02bcd02d4dd3fa358 (patch)
tree985fc37dc455372b3857a6d302860bcbf4b5bbdb /dh_auto_test
parent55a176113de2b1923c62774779bb9e069d88021d (diff)
Revert "Update dh_auto documentation."
I'm reverting the documentation addition to try doing it myself, more simply and less verbosely. This reverts commit 962a2e10c930e3504ea1c0327be2fdf70d53023e. Conflicts: dh_auto.pod
Diffstat (limited to 'dh_auto_test')
-rwxr-xr-xdh_auto_test44
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 27 deletions
diff --git a/dh_auto_test b/dh_auto_test
index 062563fd..e68bf09a 100755
--- a/dh_auto_test
+++ b/dh_auto_test
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
=head1 NAME
-dh_auto_test - run package test suites after building
+dh_auto_test - automatically runs a package's test suites
=cut
@@ -11,26 +11,20 @@ use Debian::Debhelper::Dh_Buildsystems;
=head1 SYNOPSIS
-B<dh_auto_test> [S<I<debhelper options>>] [S<I<dh_auto options>>] [S<B<--> I<params>>]
+B<dh_auto_test> [S<I<debhelper options>>] [S<B<--> I<params>>]
=head1 DESCRIPTION
-dh_auto_test is a debhelper program that is responsible for the I<test> step of
-the L<dh_auto(7)> building process. Typically, this is the point when package
-test suite is run to check if the sources were built successfully and/or
-binaries provide expected functionality. dh_auto_test will fail if test suite
-fails. However, if there's no test suite, it will exit with zero status
-without doing anything.
+dh_auto_test is a debhelper program that tries to automatically run a
+package's test suite. If there's a Makefile and it contains a "test"
+or "check" target, then this is done by running make (or MAKE, if the
+environment variable is set). If the test suite fails, the command will
+exit nonzero. If there's no test suite, it will exit zero without doing
+anything.
-If dh_auto_test does not meet your needs or does not work, it is safe to
-skip/override it entirely and just run the test suite manually.
-
-=head1 NOTES
-
-If the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable contains "nocheck", no tests will
-be performed.
-
-#DH_AUTO SHARED OPTIONS#
+This is intended to work for about 90% of packages with a test suite. If it
+doesn't work, you're encouraged to skip using dh_auto_test at all, and
+just run the test suite manually.
=head1 OPTIONS
@@ -43,10 +37,10 @@ or override the any standard parameters that dh_auto_test passes.
=back
-=head1 SUPPORTED BUILD SYSTEMS
+=head1 NOTES
-#SUPPORTED BUILD SYSTEMS INTRO#
-#SUPPORTED BUILD SYSTEMS LIST#
+If the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable contains "nocheck", no
+tests will be performed.
=cut
@@ -59,16 +53,12 @@ buildsystems_do();
=head1 SEE ALSO
-L<dh_auto(7)>
-
L<debhelper(7)>
-This program is a part of debhelper and its dh_auto package source building
-suite.
+This program is a part of debhelper.
-=head1 AUTHORS
+=head1 AUTHOR
- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
- Modestas Vainius <modestas@vainius.eu>
+Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
=cut