Package: dpkg-dev
Version: 1.19.0.5
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/dpkg-source
X-Debbugs-CC: debian-ci@lists.debian.org, python-cobra@packages.debian.org
User: debian-ci@lists.debian.org
Usertags: issue
Control: affects -1 src:python-cobra
Dear dpkg maintainers,
In commit 90324cf support was added to dpkg-source to read debian/tests/control
files and convert all test dependencies into a Testsuite-Triggers field. This
works great and is used by britney to do unstable-to-testing migration
tests. However, we recently spotted a regression (in python-cobra) that was
missed, because it uses autodep8 with additional test cases. This is done in
line with the autodep8(1) man page¹:
'''
COMBINING AUTO-GENERATED TESTS WITH MANUALLY SPECIFIED ONES
If `debian/tests/control.autodep8` exists, autodep8 will prepend the
contents of that file to its own output. In that case, autodep8 will
exit with a status of 0 even if no known package type is detected.
'''
It would be great if dpkg-source would also parse debian/tests/control.autodep8
in the same way as it does debian/tests/control, except I guess it should not
set the Testsuite field (as dpkg-source doesn't know which type of autopkgtest
this is).
I cloned the dpkg source, but as it is written in Perl, I felt uncomfortable
providing a patch. I may reconsider if this is found valuable nevertheless.
Thanks for all your good work.
Paul
¹ https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/autodep8/autodep8.1.en.html
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers testing-debug
APT policy: (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'testing'), (200, 'testing'), (50, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.17.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages dpkg-dev depends on:
ii binutils 2.31.1-1
ii bzip2 1.0.6-8.1
ii libdpkg-perl 1.19.0.5
ii make 4.2.1-1.1
ii patch 2.7.6-2
ii perl 5.26.2-6
ii tar 1.30+dfsg-2
ii xz-utils 5.2.2-1.3
Versions of packages dpkg-dev recommends:
ii build-essential 12.5
ii fakeroot 1.23-1
ii gcc 4:8.1.0-1
ii gcc-5 [c-compiler] 5.4.1-4
ii gcc-6 [c-compiler] 6.4.0-18
ii gcc-7 [c-compiler] 7.3.0-27
ii gcc-8 [c-compiler] 8.1.0-12
ii gnupg 2.2.9-1
ii gnupg2 2.2.9-1
ii gpgv 2.2.9-1
ii libalgorithm-merge-perl 0.08-3
Versions of packages dpkg-dev suggests:
ii debian-keyring 2018.06.24
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