Re: Running tests at build time?
On Sat, December 26, 2009 22:09, Raphael Geissert wrote:
> I was wondering why the test suite is not run at build time?
>
> It would ensure that no lintian release fails the test suite and help find
> regressions caused by other packages during the archive-wide rebuilds.
For one thing, we'd either need a way of flagging the failure of certain
tests as not being fatal or to rework the libbaz legacy testset so that
that it doesn't fail on !i386. I've discussed the latter with both Colin
and Russ in the past but we never came up with a solution that didn't have
problems of its own.
[We should move libbaz in to a set of proper new-style tests, but that
still leaves the question of how we test tags flagging code that's
sufficiently broken that the testset won't actually compile on most
architectures].
Adam
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