Comment 20 for bug 707075

On 10 April 2011 05:03, Clint Byrum <email address hidden> wrote:
> Hi Jelmer, Martin.
>
> I've been reviewing the proposed diff here:
>
> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/68515880/bzr_2.2.1-0ubuntu1_2.2.4-0ubuntu1.diff.gz
>
> I don't see where the test suite is enabled, and on building in a clean
> maverick chroot, I saw no test suite run.
>
> As I understand it, the test suite must be run on build before bzr's
> micro-release exception can be accepted.

Thanks for reviewing this, Clint.

Our micro-release exception says that the test suite only needs to be
enabled during build from Natty onwards[1][2]. We would like to
enable it for Maverick but the test suite depends on things in
universe there. What we should do is run the test suite from the
built package.

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates/MicroReleaseExceptions
[2] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/technical-board/2010-December/000627.html

Martin