On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 09:12:43PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > 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.
Thanks for the pointer.
> The upcoming wording doesn't add a way to distinguish between build
> dependencies required for the build and ones required for testing.
I think that was already clear to Charles. What I think he meant is
that once 'notest' is widespread enough, its "natural evolution" would
be a way to distinguish dependencies which belong to tests.
Personally, I'd add as a condition for this to be a reasonable
request, the fact that there should be enough packages with enough
test-only dependencies, which I'm not convinced it is the case. If
they are rare enough, debian/control.in + README.Debian-source is the
way to go.
Cheers.
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