Hi, On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 10:43:10PM +1100, Hugh McMaster wrote: > freetype2-demos only contains programs used to test and showcase the > FreeType 2 font engine. They aren't general-purpose utilities. > > Would this mean the binary package qualifies for the noinsttest build profile?
Like Simon, I also think that freetype2-demos is a corner case where it is not clear whether noinsttest is a reasonable profile. Simon certainly made a good argument in favour. My personal judgement thus far was that it is on the other side of the border, but clearly this is a trade-off and I may be wrong. Beyond what was argued, I think that we typically do not expect any reverse dependencies on packages tagged <!noinsttest> (other than autopkgtests). In this case, we have one reverse dependency open-font-design-toolkit and one reverse recommends check-all-the-things. That still makes it a corner case from my point of view. I'm fine with both noinsttest and a package-specific profile and leave it up to you. There is no "wrong" outcome to this. A minor argument in favour of noinsttest is that rebootstrap enables this profile for all packages, so freetype need no special handling here. Helmut
