The automatic nosetest trigger does not work and this it is switched back to manual...

diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 35c3884632d44aac8cae96a15c92a3b5f1aad191..05e4a0ede350416b20a83b3014e0380708546801 100755 (executable)
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ HTSLIBDIR  := /usr/lib/$(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE)
 export HTSLIB_LIBRARY_DIR=$(HTSLIBDIR)
 export HTSLIB_INCLUDE_DIR=/usr/include
 
+export PYBUILD_TEST_NOSE=1
+export PYBUILD_TEST_ARGS={dir}/tests
+
 # DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS := nocheck
 
 %:
@@ -35,13 +38,17 @@ override_dh_auto_clean:
 override_dh_auto_test:
        # Tests are stumbling upon missing ex1.bam file ...
        ln -s pysam_data/ex1.bam tests
+       cd tests && make -C pysam_data
+       # dh_auto_test  # unfortunately this does not work out of the box
+                       # see https://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2015/07/msg00064.html
+                       # thus trying manually with unusual tricks
        # For some strange reasons the extension of so files in Python 3.4
        # build tree are named .cpython-34m.so and thus will not be found
        # by the test scripts.  For the moment set some symlinks here to
        # enable running the test suite
        for so in `find .pybuild -name "*.cpython-34m.so"` ; do sso=`echo $${so} | sed 's/.cpython-34m//'`; ln -s `basename $${so}` $${sso} ; done
        PYBUILD_SYSTEM=custom \
-       PYBUILD_TEST_ARGS="cd tests && make -C pysam_data && if [ {version} = 2.7 ] ; then nosetests -s ; else nosetests3 -s -v ; fi" dh_auto_test || \
+       PYBUILD_TEST_ARGS="cd tests && if [ {version} = 2.7 ] ; then nosetests -s ; else nosetests3 -s -v ; fi" dh_auto_test || \
                echo "Ignoring test failures"
        # remove ex1.bam that was created above
        rm -f tests/ex1.bam