Let autopkgtests be gating for testing migration in Buster: heads-up and brain-dump

[jcristau@debian.org (Julien Cristau)]

On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 17:33:16 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 21:20:34 +0100, Paul Gevers wrote:
> 
> > I think the logical order to for me to tackle (I mean, create the code)
> > this is:
> > 0) figure out how to test all of this without breaking the real
> > instances (hints more than welcome).
> > 1) fix autopkgtest to enable --apt-suite (next to the current --apt-pocket)
> > In parallel:
> > 2a) getting a testing suite up for debci and extend debci to be aware of
> > the additional arguments for autopkgtest
> > 2b) let britney generate a list of tests it would like to perform
> > 2c) align on the transfer mechanism between britney(1) and debci
> > 3) enable debci to swallow the commands from britney
> > 4) enable the policy in britney
> > 
> > Opinions? Other ideas?
> > 
> Is 2b really necessary?  I'm not sure why we would need that.
> 
Or to be more correct, I'm not sure we would *want* britney to be able
to (or have to) do that.

Cheers,
Julien