debian/changelog

+praat (6.0.56-2) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Copy the lacking WAV file in d/t/run-tests instead of d/rules.
+    This ensures that the unit test unicode.praat will work both during
+    package build time and on debian-ci.
+
+ -- Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@debian.org>  Thu, 11 Jul 2019 17:54:52 -0300
+
 praat (6.0.56-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   * New upstream version 6.0.56

debian/rules

@@ -69,8 +69,6 @@ sendpraat: sys/sendpraat.c
 		$(shell $(PKG_CONFIG) --cflags --libs gtk+-2.0)
 
 override_dh_auto_build: sendpraat praat.1 praat_nogui.1 sendpraat.1 praat-open-files.1
-	# Copy lacking file for unit test unicode.praat
-	cp debian/éééürtüéŋəü.wav test/kar
 	dh_auto_build
 	sed 's/^LIBS = /& -Wl,--as-needed /'	\
 		makefiles/makefile.defs.linux.nogui > makefile.defs

debian/tests/run-tests

@@ -24,6 +24,9 @@ test_count=0
 test_ok=0
 failed=
 
+### Copy lacking file for unit test unicode.praat
+cp debian/éééürtüéŋəü.wav test/kar
+
 ### Loop over the directories in test/
 cd test
 for d in $(ls -d */) ; do