Bug#865570: lintian: autopkgtest no longer requires an entry in debian/control
Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.51
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
I was updating one of my packages today and received the testsuite-autopkgtest-
missing information warning from lintian. This appears to have been added due
to https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=859467.
This is very good, because there isn't a testsuite in my package, and thanks to
the prompt I will now provide one (I keep forgetting to check if this is one of
the packages for which I haven't done it yet).
However, reading the information about the warning, it sounds like lintian will
only be checking if there is a Testsuite field in debian/control (I have not
tested this). Unfortunately, this field is optional (it is added automatically
by dpkg-source version 1.17.11 or later) and lintian would give false positives
in cases where a testsuite is provided, but not declared in debian/control.
A more reliable way to check if a testsuite is provided, is to look for a
control file in the debian/tests directory.
Or if I am wrong about lintian, and it already checks there too, then the
description for the lintian tag should be updated.
Regards,
Ross
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
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APT policy: (500, 'yakkety-updates'), (500, 'yakkety-security'), (500, 'yakkety'), (100, 'yakkety-backports')
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