Test suites

["Martin Fuzzey" <mfuzzey@gmail.com>]

Hi mentors,

A little question regarding automatic test suites :

When a package provides such a suite should the normal package build process :

1) Always run the test suite (for example to catch bugs that may not
occur on the developper's architecture)
2) Never run the test suite (to avoid "wasting" buildd time)
3) Run the test suite provided its resource usage is "reasonable"
(what is reasonable??)

As a related question:
If the test suite requires extra packages that would not otherwise be
needed but the test suite is NOT run as part of the build process
should they be listed in Build-Depends anyway? If not how should the
requirements be documented?  (maybe there should be a field
"Build-Suggests"...)

Thanks,

Martin