A test suite is a very useful thing, it would be great to include it in the pypi release tarball. That way people who download and build the release can run the tests to ensure the library is working.
Linux distributions, such as Debian, base their packages of Python modules on the pypi release. This means the test suite can be run when building a Debian package, and so catch mistakes in the packaging or errors introduced into dependencies.
Coverage remained the same at 71.753% when pulling 4368046c165a7c3f963285d23b6cb0d0730feae2 on EdwardBetts:master into 47aaa592c3bc185cd2bc1d58d1451bf98be3c1ef on byroot:master.
A test suite is a very useful thing, it would be great to include it in the pypi release tarball. That way people who download and build the release can run the tests to ensure the library is working.
Linux distributions, such as Debian, base their packages of Python modules on the pypi release. This means the test suite can be run when building a Debian package, and so catch mistakes in the packaging or errors introduced into dependencies.
I've written some more on this topic on the Debian Python mailing list: https://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2016/04/msg00074.html