Richard Laager <rlaa...@debian.org> writes: > I haven't looked into the specifics of this situation, but in general, > tests should be run against the same versions of dependencies that the > actual code will use, for what should be obvious reasons. If Debian has > the dependencies with different API versions, then it's all the more > important that the tests run against the Debian versions of the > dependencies.
I believe the dependencies in question are test dependencies. In other words, they're dependencies required to drive the test suite machinery, not dependencies of the code under test. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
