On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 08:06:44PM +0100, Marius Bakke wrote: > Vincent Legoll <vincent.leg...@gmail.com> writes: > > For the tests they will be native-inputs, so only increase dependencies > > for building, is that a problem ? I would have thought that test coverage > > is more important (especially on such important packages), I'm probably > > missing something... > > For such heavy-impact packages, an important consideration is that any > dependency we add gets the same impact.
Additionally, test suites can be less important for core packages like automake, because the real test is building the distro.