add a topic but not a head

Faheem Mitha faheem at faheem.info
Fri Jun 14 16:27:37 UTC 2019


On Fri, 14 Jun 2019, Faheem Mitha wrote:

> On Fri, 14 Jun 2019, Uwe Brauer wrote:
>
>>   > On Fri, 14 Jun 2019, Uwe Brauer wrote:

>>   > It's fairly easy to obtain a Debian package for Mercurial. In many
>>   > cases, the Debian package from unstable will install on testing or
>>   > stable. And if not, it's trivial to rebuild it. It's also quite easy
>>   > to adapt the existing Debian packaging for new releases, in cases
>>   > where it's not already been packaged.

>>   > Also, Mercurial itself has the `make deb` command, but I have not used
>>   > that.

>> I just started to run it, it does

>> running 861 tests using 4 parallel processes
>> and it run and it runs the fan of my laptop starts because of the danger
>> of overheating, I had to cancel it.
>> 
>> 
>> What do I miss?
>
> You can run it without running the tests. It's actually relatively
> likely that at least one of the tests will fail, and then the build
> will also fail. I just tried it, and 3 of the tests failed.
>
> I know how to do the build without running the tests for normal Debian
> packages, but I'm not sure how to do it in this case. I suggest asking
> on the mailing lists, or probably better, on IRC.

     DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS="nocheck" make deb

works for me.

Regards, Faheem



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