Re: testing packages at build-time

[Bill Allombert <allomber@math.u-bordeaux.fr>]

On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 01:41:42AM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> 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.  ;-)

I agree. So far it is the simplest solution. It requires no change
outside documenting it and implementing it.

Cheers,
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Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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