* Stephen Kitt <sk...@debian.org>, 2014-03-19, 23:25:
FTR, we explicitly make use of that for our toolchain packages: gcc, binutils, linux, and eglibc have a "bin/true" test with "needs build" to ensure that whenever we update one piece, the others are still buildable and their tests succeed (which run at build time). I know that this is somewhat of an abuse of autopkgtest, but it does work :-)

So effectively it becomes a "rebuild reverse-dependencies" tool as well, nice!

If we had enough hardware to throw at the problem, I'd love to see ci.debian.net rebuilding all packages, even those without any DEP-8 tests defined. Hopefully there's a better way to achieve that than patching 20 thousands of source packages. :)

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Jakub Wilk


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