Re: Test suites after build and Build-Depends.

[Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>]

* Charles Plessy [Wed, 28 Jan 2009 14:39:59 +0900]:

> At the beginning I thought that skipping the depandancy needed for build-time
> tests was a logical extension, but now we all agree that it is useless. For the
> factorisation of the package list between Depends and Build-Depends, I will
> solve this in my packages with a dpkg substvar,
> such as $(depends:libfoo-bar-perl} for Foo::Bar. It seems that it is
> trivial to pass through dh_gencontrol.

Substvars don't work for Build-Depends, I'm afraid.

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