On 2026-05-27 Paul Gevers <[email protected]> wrote: > On 5/27/26 21:39, Jérémy Lal wrote: > > running a test suite during build is something that feels more and more > > useless, given debci.
> In my view, build time tests and as-installed tests serve different > purposes. > During build, you want to ensure that what you build is indeed working and > you want to prevent installing a broken package. > As-installed tests ensure that *what is installed* works *and keeps on > working* in the ecosystem it lives in. A lot of packages run the same set of > tests, but that's not necessarily the right choice. Also build-time tests are cheap compared to CI since they only run once per arch. cu Andreas
