On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 10:35:03AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 05:26:52PM +0100, Johannes Schauer a écrit : > > Whether or not "nocheck" and "nodocs" can/should become build profiles > > is of course still to be debated. > for the packages I maintain, I am now replacing the regression tests that > were ran during the build process by autopkgtest test suites. So now packages that fail their build-time test suites will be accepted into the archive, exposing users to these bugs. > http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep8/ > (see http://developer.ubuntu.com/packaging/html/auto-pkg-test.html > while Alioth-hosted sites seem to be in trouble) > If this eventually becomes the norm, then we will not need "nocheck" build > option or profile anymore. This should never become the norm. The purpose of DEP-8 is to provide a framework for running *additional* tests that *can't* be run at package build time. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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