Hi, Am Freitag, den 06.01.2012, 00:47 +0100 schrieb Reinhard Tartler: > On Do, Jan 05, 2012 at 18:26:13 (CET), Joachim Breitner wrote: > > Dear devel, > > > > I have an interesting case for a hypothetical „source package without > > binary packages“: The haskell compiler comes with an extensive test > > suite. This test suite > > 1. is distributed separately from the sources, > > 2. takes a long time to run and > > 3. partly depends on libraries that do not come with the compiler > > packages, and which in turn Build-Depend on the compiler. > > Why not installing the test-suite itself in the binary package, so that > users that install the package can run the test-suite on their own? I might do that additionally, thanks (and also to Tanguy) for the idea, but one of the desired effects is that the test-suite would be run by the buildds on all architectures. Even those without users :-) Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nomeata@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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