Re: Policy Change Proposal: Running the upstream test suite

[Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net>]

On Mon, Jul 29, 2024 at 12:07:27PM +0000, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> I understand the theory and why it's a good idea to run the test suite.  I don't think it ought to be a hard requirement.  I have several packages where there's a test suite, but I don't run it:
> [...]

Here's another case: the package has to be fully installed for the
test suite to work.  So the tests can't be run at build time, only at
autopkgtest time.

Best wishes,

   Julian