Hi, Am Dienstag, den 31.01.2017, 16:09 +0000 schrieb Gianfranco Costamagna: > * ghc does have a test suite, but the Debian package doesn't run it. > > > ghc-testsuite is the source package "running" it. > > (please don't ask me the reasons for the split :) ) * historically, it was distributed as a separate tarball (I did not know that this has changed) * It takes a long time * Often in released versions, with the release settings, some tests just fail Upstream has a slightly better handle on the last point by now, maybe we can run the test suite by now. Or run it on debci only. But we’d probably have to manually blacklist some tests that are known to fail, or known to fail on certain architectures. ghc-testsuite can probably go. Was never really put to good use. Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim “nomeata” Breitner Debian Developer nomeata@debian.org • https://people.debian.org/~nomeata XMPP: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de • GPG-Key: 0xF0FBF51F https://www.joachim-breitner.de/
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