Are regression/unit test suites being run on upstream sources?

[Arnaud Vandyck]

Mark Wielaard wrote:
> Hi Barry,
> 
> On Sat, 2005-08-06 at 00:23 -0400, Barry Hawkins wrote:
> 
>>    The thought that people might be avoiding these test suites in order
>>to ignore issues that surface in using the free runtimes is quite
>>disconcerting to me, so I wanted to bring that up and just make sure
>>that we are all on the same page that, at the very least, an upstream
>>source should pass its own unit tests when built as a Debian package.
>>Short-circuiting those tests is a favor to noone, and a disservice to
>>our larger Debian community, whom we hope to introduce to the wealth of
>>software that a solid Java packaging effort can provide.
> 
> 
> Yes please! :)
Barry, you can file a wishlist bug report against all the packages that
does not run the unit tests but I think we have to let a package in even
if a free runtime does not run all the tests. A note in README.Debian
should be enough.
[...]
> If there is anybody that wants to create a Gump setup
> on a Debian GNU/Linux (x86) using kaffe or gcj that would be a huge help
> since testing and comparing results on such a setup is a lot easier for
> most (upstream) hackers (since a lot do actually run Debian).

That would be great. Mark, do you know what is the load of such a
configuration? Network, CPU, Mem etc so we can ask the Debian project to
host such a configuration. And maybe on several different architectures.

I'm willing to help in this direction.

Cheers,

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