How to test a new application?

[felicianotech]

I didn't go to Discord because.... I don't want this. Feels strange to have to download the app and create an account there for this question. I hope that's alright.

When working on #991, I wanted to test it locally to make sure it works. I didn't find any proper way to do that. I did read the contrib guide. Am I missing something?

I tried running deb-get from the repo itself and not the one on my PATH but it was still using the main cache, /etc directories, etc. I ended up having to manually adding the string to /etc/deb-get/01-main.repo and the repo file to /etc/deb-get/01-main.d/ in order to get this to test locally.

Thoughts?

[philclifford]

The first way is to drop the application definition into the /etc/deb-get/99-local.d/ override directory (also a place to drop fixes or tweaks ).

The second way is to add your fork's repo/branch (or point 01-main.repo at your chosen repo/branch).

[felicianotech]

Nice. I'll try to find a good spot to put this info in the contributor doc.