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Re: Automatically sending test suite results from buildds to upstream



On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 12:09:57PM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 08:32:51AM +0200, Jeroen Massar wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 02:13 +0200, Florian Ragwitz wrote:
> > > On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 08:07:52PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > <SNIP>
> > > > or to include test results in the .deb files and retrieve them after
> > > > the build.  That latter is what the GCC packages do.
> > > 
> > > I don't like that solution. Users of the package don't care about the
> > > test results so it's useless to bloat the packages with them.
> > 
> > Stick the debug files into a seperate -debug package, which nobody will
> > install anyway and just consumes some archive space.
> 
> Packages that nobody will install should not be in the Debian archive. -debug
> packages only make really sense for a small number of the most high-profile
> packages.
> 
> In this case, the extract results from buildd.d.o way is the way to go IMHO.
> It can be automated too if really needed if you make sure to output specific
> markers before & after the tests run.

I think that's the way to go here. Thanks.


-Flo

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