Running tests as part of build process

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>]

Hi folks,

I am very appreciative of the value of a debian/rules that looks like this:

#!/usr/bin/make -f

# Standard way of building Haskell libraries .
include /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/debhelper.mk
include /usr/share/cdbs/1/class/hlibrary.mk

And I recognize it is a great improvement over what I used to use, and
say thanks to the people that are converting packages in the team maint.
area to use this system.

One downside it has over my old debian/rules, however, is that it
doesn't run the package's test suite as part of the Debian build
process.  I know that there is no standard way to run tests for Haskell
packages, and that not all of them ship tests.  However, I do think that
running tests, when available, as part of the build process is a Good Thing.

How can we still do that for our cdbs build system?  I would like to see
test running added back into my packages if it's not too difficult,
though I admit it's not a huge priority given the GHC 6.12 transition.

I'm not familiar enough with cdbs to know what to suggest here.

-- John