Re: How to test all r-bioc-* packages against experimental pkg-r-autopkgtest ?

[Dylan Aïssi <daissi@debian.org>]

Hi Paul,

Le lun. 10 févr. 2020 à 19:20, Paul Gevers <elbrus@debian.org> a écrit :
> For one thing, that page doesn't show anything if tests pass, so in that
> sense it can be confusing. However, if you check the corresponding .yaml
> file, you'll also find that britney (the migration software) didn't
> schedule any tests for pkg-r-autopkgtest. That means that there are no
> packages that depend on binaries from dh-r or have a declared test
> dependency on binaries from dh-r. The reason I think is that tests run
> via pkg-r-autopkgtest are coming from autodep8 and britney doesn't know
> that autodep8 depends on pkg-r-autopkgtest to run r tests. britney only
> schedules tests for direct (test) reverse dependencies, not for
> transitive (test) reverse dependencies.
>
> I hope this helps.

Thanks for your explanation. So, there is no easy way to test
experimental pkg-r-autopkgtest.

Best,
Dylan