Re: Autobuild time-saving proposal
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.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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