Re: On running test suites during build - and bootstrapping issue

Hi,

On 5/28/26 6:50 AM, Colin Watson wrote:

> I'm not sure that this is something I would personally want to opt into 
> as a maintainer, though.  The trade-off is between buildd time and the 
> likelihood of delivering more broken things to unstable.

Also, a lot of architectures don't have autopkgtests, and those are 
precisely the ones where assumptions the authors made about computing in 
general, like "all computers are little-endian and pointers fit into a 
'long'", fall flat.

> It seems to me that improving the bootstrapping situation for cases 
> where loops can be broken using nocheck would be a safer way to go.

These packages should probably define a "stage1" profile as well that 
just happens to be equivalent to "nocheck".

    Simon