For installation instructions, see Installing and setting up debexpo.

Hooray! Now you're ready to run the automated tests. (The code for the tests lives in debexpo/tests/*. This is a test suite; you can read more about test suites here.)

% nosetests --with-pylons=test.ini

As of the time of writing, all the tests pass.

(Nosetests is a "test runner" package that provides some useful add-ons. It has its own idiosyncracies, though.)

So you've found a test that fails (F) or exits with an unhandled exception (E)? Time to use the Python debugger.

Run the test suite with these parameters:

% nosetests --with-pylons=test.ini --pdb-failures --pdb-errors

(If you've used pdb.set_trace(), this is an automatic way that Nose gives you that functionality.)

You can read the debexpo documentation on Read the Docs.

The debexpo documentation is written in reStructuredText and can be found inside the docs/ directory. You can find the current installation guide at docs/installing.rst. You can build and view the HTML docs locally by executing:

% sudo apt-get install python-sphinx # needed to build the docs
% cd docs/
% make html
% sensible-browser .build/html/index.html

This repository is synchronized to Alioth, the official home of the project.