Re: testing packages at build-time

2003-10-10 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 01:41:42AM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hi, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > 1°) Let maintainers run tests in the build or binary target. > > Eventually we add a notest DEBBUILD_OPTION to disable it. > > > IMHO this option makes sense. Running tests, as long as they're not

Re: testing packages at build-time

2003-10-10 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op vr 10-10-2003, om 12:50 schreef Julian Gilbey: > On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 01:41:42AM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > > > 2?) We add a test target in debian/rules. Autobuilders will need to > > > be modified to take advantage of this. We can then go farther and > > > implement special testing fa

Re: testing packages at build-time

2003-10-10 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 01:41:42AM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > > 2?) We add a test target in debian/rules. Autobuilders will need to > > be modified to take advantage of this. We can then go farther and > > implement special testing facility. > > How would you distinguish a failed test from

Re: testing packages at build-time

2003-10-09 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Bill Allombert wrote: > 1°) Let maintainers run tests in the build or binary target. > Eventually we add a notest DEBBUILD_OPTION to disable it. > IMHO this option makes sense. Running tests, as long as they're not TOO time-consuming, should be an opt-out activity. ;-) > 2°) We add a test

testing packages at build-time

2003-10-08 Thread Bill Allombert
Hello Debian policy, Ancient policy [1] frowned upon running automated check of runtime behavior of packages in debian/rules to save time for the autobuilders, and say that such test should be run by maintainers manually before uploading. According to some comment of James Troup and other autobui