without depending on list-of-tests.mk, the dependencies of new tests
are not extracted automatically, and so tests that depend on other
tests can be run in the wrong order
Indeed. For the record (as Reuben already knows :), I was seeing the
same unpredictable behavior wrt the new vala
Or, bug #11347 again.
I just spent quite a while chasing down a test failure that was due to
testsuite-part.am not being remade when new tests were added.
I duly found bug #11347, which contains a rationale for not having
testsuite-part.am depend on all the tests.
However, the rationale doesn't