On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 06:37:21PM -0600, Colin Watson wrote: >On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 11:17:54AM -0500, Mako Hill wrote: >> The relevant section of policy seem to imply "no" through ommision as >> well (someone more knowledgable should correct me if I'm wrong here): >> >> <snip> >> A module should use the following lines in the debian/rules build >> target[3]: >> >> perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor >> $(MAKE) OPTIMIZE="-O2 -g -Wall" > >[...] > >I wouldn't say the Perl policy is implying anything through omission at >all. It just looks like it's talking about how to get the basics right >to me.
Quite correct. The intent of the quoted section of policy is to provide a basic how-to for building modules, *not* to prohibit the running of useful tests if your module provides them. A well written regression test is worth a thousand bugs. If your module has one then I would urge you to run it as part of the build. Regards, -- Brendan O'Dea [email protected] Compusol Pty. Limited (NSW, Australia) +61 2 9810 3633
