For packages where I don't include tests, I've had at least one downstream distro maintainer request that I include tests, since at least some of them treat npm or PyPI or whatever as the source of releases.
For packages where I do include tests, I've had at least one user request that I remove tests so that the footprint of the Docker image they're building is smaller.
Both are entirely reasonable requests, but package repositories don't really provide a good way of accommodating both at the same time, for instance, by allowing a separate upload of the dev gubbins such as tests.
For packages where I do include tests, I've had at least one user request that I remove tests so that the footprint of the Docker image they're building is smaller.
Both are entirely reasonable requests, but package repositories don't really provide a good way of accommodating both at the same time, for instance, by allowing a separate upload of the dev gubbins such as tests.