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Re: Big data needed for unit test



On Mon, 01 Dec 2014, Corentin Desfarges wrote:
>    I'm still working on the packaging of fw4spl, and I'm faced with a new
>    problematic : One of the unit tests needs to load an important data file,
>    which has a big size (~200 Mo).

such large data arrays are worth their own packages... then you could
have build-depend on it... before that -- indeed just disable that test

>    Should I simply remove this test, or can I include the data file in the
>    package ?

IMHO too big/too static (I bet) to be included  and then shipped again
and again and again with any new upstream software release.

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