[debhelper-devel] Bug#568897: Bug#568897: debhelper: DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck should prevent override_dh_auto_test rule to be run

[Peter Pentchev]

On Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 08:22:09PM -0600, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
> I, too, think this would be a valuable addition.
> 
> 
> On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 02:38:34PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> 
> > If I did this, I would need to also make override_dh_strip to be
> > skipped when DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip.
> 
> Yes, would also be nice.
> 
> 
> > One reason to dislike this is it would mean redundant tests in
> > dh that'd have to be maintained in parallel with the tests in the
> > commands.
> 
> Agree that it would take work to implement, though I would think that
> the tests could be centralized and used by both dh and dh_auto_test.
> Alternatively: if the logic was all in dh (to skip both dh_auto_test
> and override_dh_auto_test), then it would not need to be in
> dh_auto_test at all.

It may still need to be in dh_auto_test for packages that still do not
use the override targets at all, but invoke the dh_* commands explicitly
from the "build", "binary", etc targets.  None of mine do, but I bet that
there are still some in the archive :)

G'luck,
Peter

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