Re: Bug#994139: lintian: warning about superficial autopkgtests is counterproductive
Hi,
On Sun, Sep 12, 2021 at 1:17 PM Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> wrote:
>
> If that's the case, I would have expected it to be emitted for packages
> that have absolutely no autopkgtest coverage
You are right! The tag is issued when 'Testsuite: autopkgtest' was
declared in d/control but no d/tests/control is present. [1] It should
arguably be an error instead of info. [2]
Lintian does not currently complain when no test suite is present. As
you noted, some sources like GNOME shell extensions are essentially
impossible to test. Also, some long-time contributors reportedly
dislike autopkgtest. Either way, the project relies here on the fact
that having a meaningful testsuite may provide a faster migration from
unstable to testing.
Kind regards
Felix Lechner
[1] https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/blob/master/lib/Lintian/Check/Testsuite.pm#L89-91
[2] https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/blob/master/tags/m/missing-tests-control.tag
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