On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 12:57:59PM +0100, Mark Meyer wrote:
> I tried enabling test, but sometimes it's easiest to just ask, from the
> Krita IRC channel:
> 
> 12:49 < ofosos> hey, I'm trying to package Krita for Guix and I'm
> getting a lot 
>                 errors, when I activate the check phase of the build.
>                 Are these 
>                 tests supposed to pass in a release tarball? I have to
>                 add that 
>                 I set "QT_QPA_PLATFORM" "offscreen" to facilitate tests
>                 running 
>                 at all
> 12:50 -!- salamanderrake
> [~quassel@2605:a000:122a:32:89c6:d481:6fca:1d06] has 
>           quit [Remote host closed the connection]
> 12:52 -!- NullConstant [~quassel@5.172.232.196] has joined #krita
> 12:55 < scottyp_mobile> a lot of unit tests fail in general right now.
> no one 
>                         has had time to maintain those ofosos 
> 12:55 < ofosos> scottyp_mobile: is this true of the release tarballs?
> then I 
>                 would simply disable the check phase
> 12:56 < scottyp_mobile> this is just true in general
> 12:56 < scottyp_mobile> you could try to disable them
> 
> Looks like tests won't work anyways. So the patch can't be improved in
> this regard.
> 
> Cheers, Mark
> 

It looks like Debian disables the tests¹, as does Arch².


¹ https://sources.debian.org/src/krita/1:3.3.2.1+dfsg-1/debian/rules/#L28
² https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=packages/krita#n31
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