From: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 21:01:30 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: Add nocheck build option to suppress build-time test suites
X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7df2fbf6ad86d81ae62036f536839a79a63526a6;p=debian%2Fdebian-policy.git

Add nocheck build option to suppress build-time test suites

Closes: #416450
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diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index c9bd84f..ad5ba08 100644
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -2028,6 +2028,11 @@
 	  <p>
 	    The meaning of the following tags has been standardized:
 	    <taglist>
+	      <tag>nocheck</tag>
+	      <item>
+		  This tag says to not run any build-time test suite
+		  provided by the package.
+	      </item>
 	      <tag>noopt</tag>
 	      <item>
 		  The presence of this tag means that the package should
@@ -2095,6 +2100,12 @@ ifneq (,$(filter parallel=%,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS)))
     NUMJOBS = $(patsubst parallel=%,%,$(filter parallel=%,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS)))
     MAKEFLAGS += -j$(NUMJOBS)
 endif
+
+build:
+	# ...
+ifeq (,$(filter nocheck,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS)))
+	# Code to run the package test suite.
+endif
 	    </example>
 	  </p>
 	</sect1>