Le Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 06:26:13PM +0100, Joachim Breitner a écrit : > > From my point of view, it seems desirable to package the testsuite as a > source-package of its own, build-depending on GHC and the additional > libraries required, and upload that. Our autobuilding infrastructure > would thus run the testsuite on the various architectures, which is very > desirable, given that we are talking about a compiler that is not > well-tested by upstream on the more exotic architectures. > > Theoretically, there is no interesting binary package produced from this > source package and it seems that the policy does not explicitly require > that a source package produces binary packages... but I am certain that > this is an assumption buried deep within so many parts of our > infrastructure that it is not a good idea to actually try this.
Dear Joachim, a binary packages could be useful in the context of automatic as-installed package testing, see http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep8/. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120106005105.gb18...@merveille.plessy.net
