debian build-dependencies for testing should be marked <!nocheck>
Daniel Kahn Gillmor
dkg at fifthhorseman.net
Wed Dec 9 12:49:20 PST 2015
hi notmuch people--
debian/control's build-dependencies list a bunch of things that i think
are only relevant for running the tests (e.g. dtach -- and maybe emacs
and bash-completion and other packages).
These should be marked <!nocheck> so that dpkg-buildpackage can know to
ignore them when trying to build with BUILD_DEB_OPTIONS=nocheck.
This is called a "build profile", if you want to look up more about it:
https://wiki.debian.org/BuildProfileSpec
https://bugs.debian.org/757760
I'd send a patch, but i'm not entirely sure which packages are strictly
for the build-time tests, so i hope someone with more experience with
the debian package can mark them appropriately. Thanks!
Regards,
--dkg
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