On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 11:41:27AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
In Ubuntu, we have applied the attached patch to include autopkgtests in the
coreutils package. As a core package, it is useful to have autopkgtests in
order to detect regressions (however unlikely) introduced by the
dependencies of coreutils.
Would you consider including this patch in Debian?
Maybe after buster, but probably no. For years I did have coreutils run
tests on build, but test failures were far too common due to false
positives caused by idiosyncratic autobuilder configurations.
Mike Stone
