Bug#973336: apt: test suite dependency valgrind is not available on armel (Was: apt autopkgtest-virt-lxc failure on armel)

[Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>]

On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 12:14:58PM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 10:42:21AM +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 02:54:46PM +0900, Ryutaroh Matsumoto wrote:
> > > Source: apt
> 
> > Well valgrind is not available on armel, so the test suite
> > can't run as it needs valgrind for a test.

Also riscv64, plus a lot of archs I don't care about as much.

> > I don't think we have a sane way to express test recommends,
> > so while the test could be skipped if valgrind is not available,
> > I don't see how to make valgrind optional.

> > But patches welcome, as long as they don't hardcode a list of
> > architectures for valgrind in the test control file.
> 
> valgrind-if-available (#928184) is not yet a thing, but that's a problem
> only for build-time testsuite, not autopkgtests.

It's now in the archive, you can make the autopkgtest b-dep:
valgrind-if-available.


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