Contributing
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APT is maintained in git, the official repository being located at
-`git://anonscm.debian.org/apt/apt.git` ([webgit](http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=apt/apt.git)),
+`git://anonscm.debian.org/apt/apt.git` ([webgit](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/apt/apt.git)),
but also available at other locations like [GitHub](https://github.com/Debian/apt).
The default branch is `master`, other branches targeted at different
APT uses cmake. To start building, you need to run
- cmake <path to source directory>
+ cmake <path to source directory>
from a build directory. For example, if you want to build in the source tree,
run:
- cmake .
+ cmake .
Then you can use make as you normally would (pass -j <count> to perform <count>
jobs in parallel).
You can also use the Ninja generator of cmake, to do that pass
- -G Ninja
+ -G Ninja
to the cmake invocation, and then use ninja instead of make.
The source code uses in most parts a relatively uncommon indent convention,
-namely 3 spaces with 8 space tab (see [doc/style.txt](http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=apt/apt.git;a=blob;f=doc/style.txt) for more on this).
+namely 3 spaces with 8 space tab (see [doc/style.txt](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/apt/apt.git/tree/doc/style.txt) for more on this).
Adhering to it avoids unnecessary code-churn destroying history (aka: `git blame`)
and you are therefore encouraged to write patches in this style.
Your editor can surely help you with this, for vim the settings would be
### Unit tests
-These tests are gtest-dev based, reside in `./test/libapt` and can be run with `make test`.
-They are executed at package build-time, but not by `make`.
+These tests are gtest-dev based, executed by ctest, reside in `./test/libapt`
+and can be run with `make test`. They are executed at package build-time, but
+not by `make`. CTest by default does not show the output of tests, even if they
+failed, so to see more details you can also run them with `ctest --verbose`.
Debugging
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