Re: Autobuild time-saving proposal
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 04:12:14PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 01:43:51PM -0400, christophe barbe wrote:
> > I have an idea and wonder if:
> > 1. it's not a stupid idea,
> > 2. the framework to implement it is already there.
>
> > For example for gphoto2 I could run gphoto2 --list-cameras and gphoto2
> > --list-ports which load all the libgphoto2 libraries and use them.
> > If both commands succeed, the package is certainly use-able.
> >
> > Of course this is a simple situation, for example it could be necessary
> > to provide testing dependencies (a Testing-Depends: line in debian/control?).
> >
> > I believe this could save some times to the buildd maintainers.
> >
> > Would it be difficult to implement that?
>
> Don't even bother. Just run them in debian/rules check (or something;
> check has no particular meaning) and arrange for check to be run
> between build and binary-arch.
Yeah, that's basically what gcc and glibc do.
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