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Perhaps a compromise would be to have the package-install-time unit tests run in "testing" and "unstable", but be turned off for "stable"?
by caf 16y ago
Perhaps a compromise would be to have the package-install-time unit tests run in "testing" and "unstable", but be turned off for "stable"?
- btilly 16y agoThat would be worlds better than what we now have. But I'd like the option to turn it on. (And I'm sure others want the option to turn it off.)
- phaylon 16y agoI'm not sure what the -dbg packages in Debian/Ubuntu are strictly for, but wouldn't this be a case for it? If one could post-run the tests by saying "apttest Foo" or something along those things, integration into utilities to automatically install test packages and run them shouldn't be a huge hurdle.
- joeyo 16y agoI can't speak as to whether or not it would be a good idea for -dbg packages to run unit tests, but their nominal purpose is that they contain extra symbols to allow for debugging. http://wiki.debian.org/DebugPackage http://wiki.debian.org/DebugPackage