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Bug#976669: lintian: please warn about autopkgtests that test rebuilt source, not as-installed, where possible



On Mon, 7 Dec 2020, Andrius Merkys wrote:

> In general, autopkgtests should not depend on build tools: compilers,

Not entirely true; sometimes, tests need to be built but hopefully
against the installed code, only compiling the tests themselves.

I’m not entirely sure about pointing that out as a lintian warning
already. If too many packages rightfully use it, maintainers will
become annoyed. On the other hand, it might serve to point people
at this. Also, @builddeps@ is in the spec, even if it’s requested
to be used sparingly.

bye,
//mirabilos
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