Re: Test suites after build and Build-Depends.
Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> writes:
> In addition, I thought that the 'notest' build option that was discussed
> last year (or the year before?) on this list made it into the Policy,
> but I was wrong.
nocheck will be in 3.8.1 (see Bug#416450), but it doesn't really address
your issue.
> Maybe I overvaluated this issue. In the context of a 'notest' option,
> listing the packages on which the source package build-depends only for
> the tests would make sense, so that their installation can be skipped as
> well.
There isn't anything about that in the upcoming Policy change. The
assumption of the Policy change is that checks would be enabled by
default; nocheck is available if for some reason one wants to disable
those. The upcoming wording doesn't add a way to distinguish between
build dependencies required for the build and ones required for testing.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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