Re: Source package without a binary

[Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>]

Joachim Breitner wrote:
> From my point of view, it seems desirable to package the testsuite as a
> source-package of its own, build-depending on GHC and the additional
> libraries required, and upload that. Our autobuilding infrastructure
> would thus run the testsuite on the various architectures, which is very
> desirable, given that we are talking about a compiler that is not
> well-tested by upstream on the more exotic architectures.

Wouldn't this mean that you'd have to trigger a no-changes bin-NMU of
the testsuite package every time GHC changes, to re-run the test suite?

- Josh Triplett