Steve Langasek wrote: > 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. > > Joey, could you please revert this change to debhelper? (Added in response > to bug #703262; cc:ing that bug's submitter.)
It seems to me that most test suites involve running the program from the package, which would be difficult to do when cross building; and even if it somehow works, would not be testing it on the destination system. But, I don't have a strong opinion about this, and don't feel debhelper has any obligation to avoid breaking cross building packages whose test suites are like that, so I'll make a change if it's generally agreed on. -- see shy jo
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