On Nov 15, 2012, at 03:49 AM, Tristan Seligmann wrote: >On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Tomás Di Domenico <[email protected]> wrote: >> Another blurry point. I'm having a hard time understanding the >> separation of tasks between the tarball packaging done by upstream I >> described before, and my Debian packaging. Similar to the docs, the >> tests are run by upstream when they build the tarball. Is it common to >> also include these tests in Debian packages? > >In my opinion, packages should always include a test suite if >available; this allows an end-user to run the test suite on their >system once the package is installed, thus allowing them to verify >that the software as installed on their system is actually functional. >Of course, running the test suite at package build time (and during >for development, for that matter) should also be done in order to >catch problems as far upstream as possible, but I think extending the >ability to test the software downstream as far as possible is also >important.
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