Re: Test suites after build and Build-Depends.
On 26/01/09 at 19:15 +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote:
> * 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.
OTOH, we can't just say "let's change policy so that both depends and
build-depends are required to build the package".
It's a chicken-and-egg problem: binary deps are not known until
you build the binary package...
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