Re: testing packages at build-time
Hi, Bill Allombert wrote:
> 1°) Let maintainers run tests in the build or binary target.
> Eventually we add a notest DEBBUILD_OPTION to disable it.
>
IMHO this option makes sense. Running tests, as long as they're not TOO
time-consuming, should be an opt-out activity. ;-)
> 2°) We add a test target in debian/rules. Autobuilders will need to
> be modified to take advantage of this. We can then go farther and
> implement special testing facility.
How would you distinguish a failed test from a debian/rules file which
doesn't have a "test" target?
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