On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 9:48 AM, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 04/30/2012 04:22 PM, "Germán A. Racca" wrote: >> >> On 04/30/2012 11:09 AM, Tom Lane wrote: >>> >>> =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Germ=E1n_A=2E_Racca=22?=<german.racca@xxxxxxxxx> >>> writes: >>>> >>>> I'm the packager of APLpy: http://aplpy.github.com/ >>>> I'm going to update it to a new version, which comes with a set of >>>> tests, but I'm not sure about what to do with them. >>> >>> >>> I think you do want to make the tests available to users, but they don't >>> necessarily have to be part of the base package. >>> If the tests are large relative to the base package, a fairly common >>> solution is to split them out into a sub-package, say aplpy-test. >>> >>> (This is in addition to running them during the build.) >>> >>> regards, tom lane >> >> >> Hi Tom: >> >> $ du -sh aplpy/ >> 300K aplpy/ >> >> $ du -sh tests/ >> 192K tests/ >> >> So I think that a split is not needed in this case. > > > This reasoning is dangerous: > > a) Testsuites usually pull in further dependencies, which are not required > by the corresponding runtimes and therefore cause bloat. > > b) If everybody thinks the "These 100k more don't matter" way, the distro > very soon will have problems. > > > That said, my pragmatical recommendation would be > > a) Only explicitly package a testsuite, if upstream explicitly support this > (I.e. if "make install" or similar install this testsuite). And if, do so in > a separate package. > > b) Check carefully, if a test is actually designed to be externally (often > this does not apply) or if it's an internal "self-testsuite". > > Apart of this, experience tells, *-test packages cause more trouble thany > they use and often are removed in not too distant future. > Exactly, hence my suggestion to put it in %doc, to prevent deps, though it doesn't help with disk space as much as leaving it out. -J > > Ralf > > > > > -- > packaging mailing list > packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging -- http://cecinestpasunefromage.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------ in your fear, seek only peace in your fear, seek only love -d. bowie -- packaging mailing list packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging
