question about build profile nocheck

[Afif Elghraoui <afif@debian.org>]

Hello,

The BuildProfileSpec on the wiki [1] defines the `nocheck` profile as:


> No test suite should be run, and build dependencies used only for that
purpose should be ignored. Builds that set this profile must also add
`nocheck` to `DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS`
```

I understand this as saying that the debhelper step for dh_auto_test or
override_dh_auto_test would be automatically skipped if this profile is
defined. Am I mistaken? I'm asking because I've seen the following
pattern in a couple of packages already:

```
ifeq (,$(findstring nocheck, $(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS)))
override_dh_auto_test:
	commands...
        commands...
else
override_dh_auto_test:
endif
```
Thanks and regards
Afif


1. https://wiki.debian.org/BuildProfileSpec

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