Include lesstest in tarballs?

[thesamesam]

Thanks for less!

Would it be possible to include lesstest in distribution tarballs so we can easily test less downstream by running its test suite? Thanks!

If it's not intended for downstream Linux distributions to run lesstest, then please disregard. It looks like it operates in two modes and one of them is non-interactive so it seems like it could work.

[frwol]

Hi,

any news on this issue ? Because I'm also interested in having the lesstest test suite in the tarballs. Thanks in advance.

[gwsw]

I will probably add lesstest to the release soon, but after the current beta cycle is complete. Lesstest is mainly intended for developers of less itself, to test for regression. Since it's a new feature, I want to get some more experience with it before releasing it widely.

[natbailey]

Hi there!
Just wanted to check in on the status of this issue. For context, the Yocto Project would generally like to utilize tests for any recipe that has them with the ptest system (wiki page). Definitely not urgent, but very appreciated.

[gwsw]

Lesstest was added to the release tarball in 5176056.