Re: TEST_POD [was Re: [Update] net/p5-Net-BGP : Update to 0.17]

On 2019/09/18 13:24, Gleydson Soares wrote:
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> > On 18 Sep 2019, at 12:26, Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org> wrote:
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> >> On 2019/09/18 05:48, Gleydson Soares wrote:
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> >>>> On 18 Sep 2019, at 04:40, Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org> wrote:
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> >>>> On 2019/09/18 02:15, wen heping wrote:
> >>>> Hi, ports@:
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> >>>> Here is a patch for net/p5-Net-BGP:
> >>>> i) Update to 0.17
> >>>> ii) Add TEST_POD=yes
> >>>
> >>> I've been wondering for a while... what's the point in using TEST_POD
> >>> in ports? Isn't that more of an "author test" kind of thing?
> >>>
> >>
> >> Some p5- ports fails on regress since it depends on p5- pod packages you mean disabling pod tests?
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> > I mean, what's the point in enabling POD tests for things that don't
> > normally do them?
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> sure, adding no-op dependencies is wrong...
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It's not usually a no-op dependency, rather it enables tests that seem to
me to only be of real interest to the author..