[Python-modules-team] Bug#606528: Bug#606528: sympy: please run tests at build time

[Sandro Tosi]

Hi Ondrej,

On 2010-12-10, Ondrej Certik <ondrej at certik.cz> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Jakub Wilk <jwilk at debian.org> wrote:
>> Source: sympy
>> Version: 0.6.7-1.1
>>
>> Sympy comes with a test suite, so it would be nice if it could be
>> run at build time, preferably with all supported Python versions.
>
> It takes several minutes to run. Are you sure it's a good idea?

IMO yes.

> What happens if some little test fails?

for the first "run" you can ignore errors, but this way you'll have
the tests executed on the buildds and see what's going on, and then
you'll be able to work to fix what's broken.

> Is it better to have 99% working package, or not a package at all?

I'd rather have a 100% working package :) Or a package where tests
failures are ignored (temporarily) to have the time to work on the
code to fix it.

Cheers,
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