Re: Release goal: enforce the use of testsuites when available
On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 02:00:18AM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
> Packages that have a test-suite should always call it. Most
> autotool-ed packages have a "check" target to run and that's it. It
> would help tracking down regressions from the build logs, and would
> avoid breakages like recently the grep one.
> Most of the sensitives packages in debian already run the testsuite
> (libc, compilers, git, whatever...) and I can tell as a libc packager
> that this already has been proven invaluable.
Why does this belong as a release goal? Do you really think that enabling
testsuites in packages should be grounds for a zero-day NMU? What steps
will you be taking to ensure that NMUers don't enable testsuites that are
known to be broken?
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