На  4.03.2014 20:36, Mat Booth написа:

On 25 February 2014 11:19, Mikolaj Izdebski <mizdebsk@redhat.com> wrote:

On 02/25/2014 11:45 AM, Alexander Todorov wrote:

3) Another proposal (sorry don't remember who proposed it) was to have
%check with a comment why the test suite is not executed (e.g. requires
network) or why it is executed in %build.

Commenting why tests are skipped is a very good thing, but I don't like
the idea of adding empty %check sections to my 250+ packages just for
the sake of documenting that tests are ran in %build "because that's
what we do in Java world".

Agreed, it seems like busy work to me that adds very little value to anyone
familiar with Java packages.

You are forgetting everyone that is not so familiar with Java.

Also I didn't ask you (as a package owner) to do it explicitly, I've asked you to accept a patch which should be much more easier.

Wouldn't it be easier to change the whatever
tool is generating this report to accommodate for this? "If package invokes
%mvn_build then don't expect there to be a %check section" seems like a
reasonable heuristic to me.

See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1072417#c4 to avoid repeating myself.


Even if the tool uses heuristics to exclude some groups of packages it will not be obvious why there's no %check section. It could be because tests are executed in %build, because they need root or network access and are disabled, because the test framework used is not available (see DHCP) or anything else.