On Sun, 2008-04-20 at 14:58 +0200, Martin Fuzzey wrote:
> 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)
Yes. (That is the main point of having a test suite.)
> 2) Never run the test suite (to avoid "wasting" buildd time)
No.
> 3) Run the test suite provided its resource usage is "reasonable"
> (what is reasonable??)
A broken test suite should be fixed, not disabled.
> 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"...)
The test suite should be run by the buildd so the dependencies of the
test suite are the build-dependencies of the source package.
Always run the test suite - *except* if the nocheck option is passed to
DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS so that it can be easily disabled when cross building.
ifeq (,$(findstring nocheck,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS)))
make check
endif
http://wiki.debian.org/EmdebianGuide
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