Cleaning up check targets (was Re: [Libreoffice-qa] ESC meeting minutes: 2020-03-05)

[Stephan Bergmann]

On 17/03/2020 11:35, Luboš Luňák wrote:
>   So, proposal: 'slowcheck' will be deprecated and will simply map
> to 'unitcheck', and 'unitcheck' will be the target to get just the "fast"
> checks. 'check' will map to 'unitcheck slowcheck subsequentcheck uicheck'
> also in modules. That would be consistent and also mostly backwards
> compatible (with the exception of 'make <module>.check').

* Why merely deprecate slowcheck, instead of removing it completely?

* A probably better description of unitcheck than running the "fast" 
checks is that it runs tests that do not depend on a fully populated 
instdir.