Package: debian-policy Version: 4.0.1.0 Severity: normal I think the following patch is needed even if profiles are not fully specified. Maybe an example about nodoc and help2man will also help. The nocheck should check both BUILD_OPTIONS and BUILD_PROFILES. It will help when implementing as policy profiles
diff --git a/policy/ch-source.rst b/policy/ch-source.rst
index f706a13..d3d868c 100644
--- a/policy/ch-source.rst
+++ b/policy/ch-source.rst
@@ -465,7 +465,8 @@ The meaning of the following tags has been standardized:
``nocheck``
This tag says to not run any build-time test suite provided by the
- package.
+ package. This tag could be also specified using
+ ``DEB_BUILD_PROFILES`` variable with nocheck flag
``nodoc``
This tag says to skip any build steps that only generate package
@@ -531,7 +532,7 @@ order to make it work for your package.
build:
# ...
- ifeq (,$(filter nocheck,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS)))
+ ifeq (,$(filter nocheck,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS $DEB_BUILD_PROFILES)))
# Code to run the package test suite.
endif
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