--- /dev/null
+#!/usr/bin/perl
+use warnings;
+use strict;
+use Test::More tests => 50;
+
+BEGIN { use_ok("IkiWiki"); }
+%config=IkiWiki::defaultconfig();
+$config{srcdir}=$config{destdir}="/dev/null";
+IkiWiki::checkconfig();
+
+# avoids adding an unparseable pagespec
+ok(! add_depends("foo", "foo and (bar"));
+ok(! add_depends("foo", "foo another"));
+
+# simple and not-so-simple dependencies split
+ok(add_depends("foo", "*"));
+ok(add_depends("foo", "bar"));
+ok(add_depends("foo", "BAZ"));
+ok(exists $IkiWiki::depends_simple{foo}{"bar"});
+ok(exists $IkiWiki::depends_simple{foo}{"baz"}); # lowercase
+ok(! exists $IkiWiki::depends_simple{foo}{"*"});
+ok(! exists $IkiWiki::depends{foo}{"bar"});
+ok(! exists $IkiWiki::depends{foo}{"baz"});
+
+# default dependencies are content dependencies
+ok($IkiWiki::depends{foo}{"*"} & $IkiWiki::DEPEND_CONTENT);
+ok(! ($IkiWiki::depends{foo}{"*"} & ($IkiWiki::DEPEND_PRESENCE | $IkiWiki::DEPEND_LINKS)));
+ok($IkiWiki::depends_simple{foo}{"bar"} & $IkiWiki::DEPEND_CONTENT);
+ok(! ($IkiWiki::depends_simple{foo}{"bar"} & ($IkiWiki::DEPEND_PRESENCE | $IkiWiki::DEPEND_LINKS)));
+
+# adding other dep types standalone
+ok(add_depends("foo2", "*", presence => 1));
+ok(add_depends("foo2", "bar", links => 1));
+ok($IkiWiki::depends{foo2}{"*"} & $IkiWiki::DEPEND_PRESENCE);
+ok(! ($IkiWiki::depends{foo2}{"*"} & ($IkiWiki::DEPEND_CONTENT | $IkiWiki::DEPEND_LINKS)));
+ok($IkiWiki::depends_simple{foo2}{"bar"} & $IkiWiki::DEPEND_LINKS);
+ok(! ($IkiWiki::depends_simple{foo2}{"bar"} & ($IkiWiki::DEPEND_PRESENCE | $IkiWiki::DEPEND_CONTENT)));
+
+# adding combined dep types
+ok(add_depends("foo2", "baz", links => 1, presence => 1));
+ok($IkiWiki::depends_simple{foo2}{"baz"} & $IkiWiki::DEPEND_LINKS);
+ok($IkiWiki::depends_simple{foo2}{"baz"} & $IkiWiki::DEPEND_PRESENCE);
+ok(! ($IkiWiki::depends_simple{foo2}{"baz"} & $IkiWiki::DEPEND_CONTENT));
+
+# adding a pagespec that requires page metadata should cause a fallback to
+# a content dependency
+foreach my $spec ("* and ! link(bar)", "* or link(bar)", "unknownspec()",
+ "title(hi)",
+ "* or backlink(yo)", # this one could actually be acceptably be
+ # detected to not need a content dep .. in
+ # theory!
+ ) {
+ ok(add_depends("foo3", $spec, presence => 1));
+ ok($IkiWiki::depends{foo3}{$spec} & $IkiWiki::DEPEND_CONTENT);
+ ok(! ($IkiWiki::depends{foo3}{$spec} & ($IkiWiki::DEPEND_PRESENCE | $IkiWiki::DEPEND_LINKS)));
+}
+
+# adding dep types to existing dependencies should merge the flags
+ok(add_depends("foo2", "baz"));
+ok($IkiWiki::depends_simple{foo2}{"baz"} & $IkiWiki::DEPEND_LINKS);
+ok($IkiWiki::depends_simple{foo2}{"baz"} & $IkiWiki::DEPEND_PRESENCE);
+ok(($IkiWiki::depends_simple{foo2}{"baz"} & $IkiWiki::DEPEND_CONTENT));
+ok(add_depends("foo2", "bar", presence => 1)); # had only links before
+ok($IkiWiki::depends_simple{foo2}{"bar"} & ($IkiWiki::DEPEND_LINKS | $IkiWiki::DEPEND_PRESENCE));
+ok(! ($IkiWiki::depends_simple{foo2}{"bar"} & $IkiWiki::DEPEND_CONTENT));
+ok(add_depends("foo", "bar", links => 1)); # had only content before
+ok($IkiWiki::depends{foo}{"*"} & ($IkiWiki::DEPEND_CONTENT | $IkiWiki::DEPEND_LINKS));
+ok(! ($IkiWiki::depends{foo}{"*"} & $IkiWiki::DEPEND_PRESENCE));