Le Thursday 14 May 2009 22:44:24 Stefano Zacchiroli, vous avez écrit : > > Just to add my 2 cents: If the policy is one package + one lintian > > version = deterministic checks, then why not adding a flag in the > > package's control file that specifies which additional set of tests > > should be run when lintian is checked against it ? > > > > That way, it allows both optional tests and reproducibility... > > .... urrrmmm, not really. The point here is also the extra need of > some language-specific tool which do not appear as lintian > dependency. So, even if I've a sympathy for your proposal, > reproducibility will not be ensured unless your field also specify > which extra package to install to support the required lintian > "plugin". But at that point it can be argued that we are getting a bit > overkilling ...
Well, if this set of tests is installed in the build-dep of the package, like with dh_ocaml, it will work. Furthermore, lintian itself could complain/fail/eat a kitten (alive) if it is run against a package asking for, says, ocaml-related tests but these are not found.. Romain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-ocaml-maint-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
