Mass rebuilds for transitions: why only lib*-perl?

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 09:49:08AM +0200, Niko Tyni wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 09:10:54PM +0000, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> > I'm wondering whether we shouldn't test-rebuild more than just
> > lib*-perl. Surely anything build-depending on perl could be tested if
> > we wanted?
> 
> Sure, that was just a rough first approximation. My rebuild system
> was rather limited IO-wise, and lib*-perl (or something like that)
> seemed like an adequate trade off IIRC.
> 
> Feel free to test the whole archive if you like and have the iron for that :)
> After all, build dependencies on perl-base aren't declared anywhere...

Right, I see the problem :) Might be interesting/useful to test Essential
packages at least, although I guess that many packages won't have test
suites which get invoked at build time in the same way that CPAN modules
do.

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