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Re: Test suites after build and Build-Depends.



* Mike Hommey [Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:13:10 +0100]:

> On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 06:52:00PM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote:
> > On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 08:44:01 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:

> > > 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. 

> > Are around 1200 arch:any libfoo-perl packages enough? They usually
> > duplicate the run-time dependencies in B-D-I for the tests

> OT, but why do they need to *duplicate* these? Normaly, dependencies in
> B-D needn't appear in B-D-I.

They duplicate the "Depends" line into B-D-I.

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