On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 06:34:34PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > 1) I hope that the new test suite will make it more useful to run it > > only partly. Now you really need to run the whole testsuite, even if > > you only edit one check script, since the test can be diestributed all > > over the test suite. > > 2) The fact that we now use git should make it easier to commit more > > than one fix with only light fixing and only run the testsuite once > > before the push. > > Both good points. Definitely don't let the speed issue stop you.
Hmm, after some experience just *how* slow that is gonna be on my poor laptop, I'm actually thinking about some improvements. One way could be to offer source-only and binary-only tests. The former would just run dpkg-buildpackage -S or dpkg-source -b and the latter dpkg-deb --build. Since the new test suite should be more fine-grained than the old, one will usually only check for one type of tags anyway. And that could be significantly faster than always running the whole package build. Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.djpig.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
