Hi Guillem, Am Samstag, den 07.01.2012, 02:40 +0100 schrieb Guillem Jover: > That's what I did for the last posixtestsuite 1.5.2-4 upload, and > while the “dummy” binary package might seem a bit worthless, it has > some advantages; it keeps the maintainer build log, something the buildd > network does not currently do, and it makes the test results, which in > a way could be considered different to build logs, available in an > easily installable form. The other advantage of not providing a > foo-source binary package is that the natural way of building binary > packages is from source packages not binary ones. strange that it did not occur to me to look for precedence cases of a source package shipping “only” a testsuite; thanks for pointing me to it. I now followed that lead and packaged ghc-testsuite as a source that generates one binary containing the test results. Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nomeata@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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