[Python-modules-team] Bug#606528: Bug#606528: sympy: please run tests at build time

[Ondrej Certik]

On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Ondrej,
>
> On 2010-12-10, Ondrej Certik <ondrej at certik.cz> wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Jakub Wilk <jwilk at debian.org> wrote:
>>> Source: sympy
>>> Version: 0.6.7-1.1
>>>
>>> Sympy comes with a test suite, so it would be nice if it could be
>>> run at build time, preferably with all supported Python versions.
>>
>> It takes several minutes to run. Are you sure it's a good idea?
>
> IMO yes.
>
>> What happens if some little test fails?
>
> for the first "run" you can ignore errors, but this way you'll have
> the tests executed on the buildds and see what's going on, and then
> you'll be able to work to fix what's broken.
>
>> Is it better to have 99% working package, or not a package at all?
>
> I'd rather have a 100% working package :)

Sure, me too, but that's not what I was asking. :)

> Or a package where tests
> failures are ignored (temporarily) to have the time to work on the
> code to fix it.

Let's ignore the result then, that seems to me like a good solution.

Ondrej