[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#842449: test suite built and -Werror used iff .git present

[Ian Jackson]

Package: libvirt
Version: 2.3.0-3
Severity: minor

While debugging a build problem, I discovered this curious fact:

The libvirt configure script checks for the existence of a directory
called .git, and if so it:
 - enables building the test suite
 - adds -Werror to the build flags

I can sort of see why upstream might think these useful but in the
Debian context I don't think I agree.

I suggest passing to configure from debian/rules,
 --with-test-suite 
 --disable-werror

Thanks,
Ian.

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