Bug#905030: lintian: please verify debian/tests/control contains more tests than "Test-Command: /bin/true"
> >> For this proposal to make sense, all deployed autopkgtests must
> >> actually test the package involved to some extent.
> >
> > I fully ACK and understand the issue and background but just to be more
> > effective priority-wise are you aware of how many packages, if any,
> > are violating this right now?
>
> codesearch [1] suggests it may be ~170 packages. All packages by the GIS
> team seem to be involved. Rather unconstructively, they refuse to fix it
> until lintian has the warning [2].
There is also one package that uses "true" not "/bin/true" so I guess that
should also be included.
Perhaps:
Test-Command:\s*(/bin/)?true
I've not found any other obvious noops within Test-Command (exit, echo, :, …).
It's not possible for lintian to test for all the 'creative' things people can
do but since 'true' is the most obvious noop it's probably enough for that.
(The policy around the tests obviously needs to broadly forbid noop tests in
some way beyond what lintian can actually test for; someone from RT/ci/
Policy(?) needs to document what is acceptable)
cheers
Stuart
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