| Subject: | Nonfatal Test Failures |
Downstream packagers like Debian will run all author tests prior to
releasing each module. Since Test::DistManifest is designed to fail
outright when there is a problem (ie, missing files, or unrecognized
files), this can be problematic.
We need some way for Debian packagers to (by virtue of an environment
variable, perhaps) notify the program that we want to see debug output,
but don't want to see any failures. This allows the build process to
continue even if additional files are added.
This is often the case with debian/ files (Debian Control Files).