Testing of auto-built packages
Peoples,
I have been looking at a bug in a library that only appears to be
occuring on the PPC platform. This is something I don't have, but the
autobuilders are taking the source upload of the package in question
(Xalan), getting a successful build, and pushing the .debs into unstable.
Which is great, but it means that the package hits unstable with a bug
that would be obvious with even a trivial test.
So the question is, is it permissable to put such a basic test of a
library into the rules file that gets executed as part of the build
process? If so, are there any guidelines anywhere as to how one might
go about doing it (realising that there are going to be environmental
considerations given I don't control the autobuilder systems)?
The test would involve compiling an extra piece of source and having the
makefile run it (similar to "make test" on many systems).
Os is this just a big no-no?
Cheers,
Berin
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