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

Le jeu. 28 mai 2026 à 19:00, Andreas Metzler <[email protected]> a écrit :

> On 2026-05-27 Paul Gevers <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 5/27/26 21:39, Jérémy Lal wrote:
> > > running a test suite during build is something that feels more and more
> > > useless, given debci.
>
> > In my view, build time tests and as-installed tests serve different
> > purposes.
>
> > During build, you want to ensure that what you build is indeed working
> and
> > you want to prevent installing a broken package.
>
> > As-installed tests ensure that *what is installed* works *and keeps on
> > working* in the ecosystem it lives in. A lot of packages run the same
> set of
> > tests, but that's not necessarily the right choice.
>
> Also build-time tests are cheap compared to CI since they only run once
> per arch.
>
> cu Andreas
>

Could sbuild have an option that enables the various build profiles that
are available in debian/control
(thinking about nocheck, nodoc, in particular, but possibly some others)
if building with default build profile (none) fails because some package,
that is present in the control file with a <!profile>, is missing on a
specific arch ?