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Re: Consistent handling of the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS



On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 01:18:25PM +0000, Neil Williams wrote:
> This is one of the changes sought by Emdebian to support using Debian
> on embedded devices where storage space is far from cheap and involves
> running counter to the current Debian default of "install everything
> that works, every time, every package".
> 
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2007/11/msg00116.html
> 
> nodocs, nocheck/notest need to be formalised and implemented across
> Debian in a standard, consistent manner that reproducibly supports the
> same changes to each package no matter what build system is used.

Why not add a "test" or "check" target to the debian/rules file instead?

Mike



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