Hi, Salvatore Bonaccorso <salvatore.bonacco...@gmail.com> writes: > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 05:53:21PM +0200, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: >> The changelog says: >> >> + * No longer run release tests. >> + * Remove build-dep on libpod-simple-perl, libperl-minimumversion-perl, >> + libtest-cpan-meta-perl, libtest-minimumversion-perl, >> libtest-pod-perl. >> >> Could you please explain why? > > Sure. This change was made by Ansgar Burchardt. The reason was to try > to avoid situations as we had in #589051 [1] and #589052 [2]. > > [1] http://bugs.debian.org/589051 > [2] http://bugs.debian.org/589052 > > The idea was to try to avoid (indirect) build-depends on itself of > packages. These release tests only are t/97_meta.t, t/98_pod.t and > t/99_pmv.t > > The t/97_meta.t tests that the META.yml matches current > specifications. Similarly t/98_pod.t is test if the POD documentation > is valid and t/99_pmv.t to test if the minimum needed Perl version > declared matches really the syntax.
In addition release tests are not intended to be run at build-time by upstream and often contain tests that are fragile and often break without affecting the functionality of the package. Tim Retout <dioc...@debian.org> writes: > I looked at this: the 'Depends' field has dropped 'perl (>= > 5.10.1-12), perlapi-5.10.1' since the package switched to --with > perl_dbi. > > Could someone (Ansgar) confirm/deny whether this is okay? I've set it > back to unreleased in the meantime. That should not happen and does not for me. Just like gregor I get Depends: libdbi-perl, perl (>= 5.10.1-14), perl-dbdabi-94, perlapi-5.10.1, libc6 (>= 2.4), libsqlite3-0 (>= 3.7.2) when building the package (and did so in July as well when I committed these changed to out SVN). Regards, Ansgar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87tymj5s1p....@marvin.43-1.org
