Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=520505 --- Comment #8 from Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta@xxxxxx> 2009-09-04 13:17:04 EDT --- As said, it's been discussed before. Test suites often (usually?) contain undocumented and bad API usage/coding examples; package size bloat; installing stuff upstream hasn't intended to be installed; potential for spurious dependency bloat (sorry that can't be left out as evidenced by this bug) - or if you eliminate these deps, the tests can't be run without manually managing them at which point it'd be better to download and use the source rpms for this purpose (they have the proper deps, Makefile.PL's etc infrastructure upstream intended for the test suite and have less risk of littering system locations with generated test leftover data); kind of encourages bad practices such as mentioned by Chris in his mail referred to in comment 2 (installing packages in system locations and _then_ after the fact thinking about running test suites); if upstream docs aren't good enough it'd be better to let upstream know about that and ask them to improve things so more people would benefit; etc. Yes, there are exceptions and _sometimes_ packaging the test suites or parts of them might be beneficial. But I strongly think those cases are a rare exception and it seems that test suites are packaged without much thought in Fedora packages these days and FWIW I wouldn't personally consider approving any package that doesn't document a good rationale for including that stuff in the particular case of that package in question. If it was a good idea in general, why wouldn't it be done in other packages besides perl ones, and why isn't it done even in all perl packages, and why isn't there a general guideline that encourages shipping that stuff in place or being pushed by people, and all that already in place for lots and lots of years of packaging history? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. -- Fedora Extras Perl SIG http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SIGs/Perl Fedora-perl-devel-list mailing list Fedora-perl-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-perl-devel-list
