micro release exception for bzr

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 12:25:21PM +0100, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Matt Zimmerman [2010-12-15 11:11 +0000]:
> > Works for me.  The important thing is that we have assurance that the tests
> > pass on the build we're going to ship to users.  Running the tests during
> > the build is just the simplest way to manage that assurance, but if it can
> > be provided by other means, that should be sufficient.
> 
> It doesn't prevent e. g.  forgetting to actually install new files
> from a new version in debian/*.install, putting them into the wrong
> destination path, or a problem with the python integration. So for SRU
> verification I'm actually more interested in testing the actually
> installed .deb.

I agree that it's more valuable to test the installed .deb.  However, that
shouldn't require a dependency on python-testtools, should it?  That package
would only be needed when running the tests, and could be installed in the
testing environment.

I thought we were talking about build-time tests.

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 - mdz