Re: To test or not to test testsuites?

[Jens-Ulrik Petersen]

>  On 2 April 2018 at 03:58, Jens-Ulrik Petersen <petersen(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:
>
> > (I think deleting the abi-depends field from every package .conf would
> > fix this but that would require rebuilding everything and patching Cabal.
> > Well a hack could be to add an RPM file trigger to do this, but I am wary
> > of doing that.)
> >
>  
BTW I am patching ghc-pkg for F28 so that it doesn't complain about
abi-depends when installing packages.


>  So first of all please be careful if rebuilding package-versions for
> F28
> > not to toggle testsuites on or off. If we ship ghc-8.4 in F29 then I think
> > this issue will be gone, since it no longer generates and ignores
> > abi-depends metadata.
> >
>
>  This should be fine if you're rebuilding all dependents (possibly for
>  other reasons) though, right?
>  
Right

This probably mostly affects un-subpackaging of deps, which is how it hit
me.


>  Generally, I like to enable test suites in my packages. Mostly, I
> haven't
>  been doing this for Haskell because we don't have all the testing deps
>  available. Also, cabal-rpm already adds testing deps behind a --with-tests
>  flag and since they're disabled by default, I usually never get around to
>  enabling them. I think many more of the dependencies should be available
>  now that I added some for the git-annex test suite, but there are likely
>  quite a few more.
>  
Okay, sure

cabal-rpm disables tests when deps are missing otherwise it enables them.

So anyway be careful with Fedora ghc-8.2.2 if you enable or disable
testsuites for a package version.

Jens