xmltooling, wheezy and skipping tests

[Ferenc Wágner]

Etienne Dysli-Metref <etienne.dysli-metref at switch.ch> writes:

> On 21/09/16 11:31, Ferenc Wágner wrote:
>>> Otherwise, I'd recommend skipping the whole check phase by removing the
>>> dh_auto_test call from debian/rules.
>> 
>> Or even better by configuring --with-cxxtest=no.  Then you can also drop
>> cxxtest from Build-Depends.  The upstreamable solution would be checking
>> support for TS_SKIP in configure.ac.  I should probably have done it
>> when introducing TS_SKIP...  Or just not support skipping the networked
>> tests when this macro isn't defined.  Hmm.
>
> Hmm... as a developer, I'm reluctant to disable the whole test suite
> (that's our safety net, after all) just for a few failing tests.

We're talking about the wheezy builds only, the tests would still run in
unstable and jessie.  What's more, they weren't enabled before 1.6.0 at
all, and we survived.

> Could we delete the networked ones in a patch?

Sure we could.

> Do you know what would happen if those networked tests were to run on
> Debian's build servers with networking disabled?

The "reproducible" buildds actually run with networking disabled, and
you can check that 1.6.0-1 FTBFS on those.
-- 
Feri