On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 3:29 AM, Steve Langasek <[email protected]> wrote: > Package: debhelper > Version: 9.20130504 > > On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 06:20:03PM +0800, YunQiang Su wrote: >> Hi, Steve, > >> dh_auto_check disable check when cross build by default now, when cross >> build, I believe it's a good behavior. > >> Here we override_dh_auto_check, fellow the behavior of dh_auto_check >> will be a good idea. > > Thanks for making me aware of this. > > I'm filing a bug against debhelper asking for this behavior to be reverted. > debhelper should *not* automatically disable the test suite when > cross-building. There are perfectly legitimate cases where you may be > cross-building and *do* want to run the test suite, and this behavior change > in dh undermines this. If someone wants the test suite to be skipped > because they're cross-building, they should use the standard interface for > this and set DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Whereas if someone does want the > test suite to be run when cross-building, there is no corresponding > interface that lets them override this in the other direction.
Could we add nocheckcross option in this case ? Bastien > > Joey, could you please revert this change to debhelper? (Added in response > to bug #703262; cc:ing that bug's submitter.) > > Thanks, > -- > Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS > Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. > Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ > [email protected] [email protected] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
