Neil Williams wrote: > 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.) I agree with this (of course with the caveat that DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck should disable the test suite). But I'll add a minor and maybe obvious exception -- one should disable or rework any parts of the test suite that would need any of the following: * An X server (e.g. for GUI tests) * A working network connection * Write access to the file system outside the build directory (with obvious exceptions like /tmp) * Interactivity None of these are guaranteed to be available on the buildds. (Although minimal interactivity could be scripted with expect or some such.) best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <kmccarty@gmail.com> WWW: http://www.starplot.org/ WWW: http://people.debian.org/~kmccarty/ GPG: public key ID 4F83C751
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