Re: Second round of advise on packaging python-csb
On Nov 15, 2012, at 03:49 AM, Tristan Seligmann wrote:
>On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Tomás Di Domenico <tdido@tdido.com.ar> wrote:
>> Another blurry point. I'm having a hard time understanding the
>> separation of tasks between the tarball packaging done by upstream I
>> described before, and my Debian packaging. Similar to the docs, the
>> tests are run by upstream when they build the tarball. Is it common to
>> also include these tests in Debian packages?
>
>In my opinion, packages should always include a test suite if
>available; this allows an end-user to run the test suite on their
>system once the package is installed, thus allowing them to verify
>that the software as installed on their system is actually functional.
>Of course, running the test suite at package build time (and during
>for development, for that matter) should also be done in order to
>catch problems as far upstream as possible, but I think extending the
>ability to test the software downstream as far as possible is also
>important.
+1
-Barry
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