Re: Query on Package rasdaemon Transition to Testing: QEMU vs. LXC

["Taihsiang Ho (tai271828)" <e@tai271828.me>]

Hi Simon,

Thank you for the clarification. It's very helpful for me. Let me move
the rasdaemon package forward.

-tai

On Sun, Jan 7, 2024 at 2:25 PM Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 07 Jan 2024 at 13:00:00 +0100, Taihsiang Ho (tai271828) wrote:
> > does Debian CI accept exit code 8 when migrating a
> > package from Sid to Testing?
>
> Yes, exit status 8 (meaning no non-superficial tests that were runnable
> with the current restrictions) is equivalent to not having any tests
> at all. debci logs it as "neutral" rather than as a pass or fail.
>
> "Restrictions: isolation-machine" is the correct way to represent a test
> that cannot run successfully under e.g. lxc.
>
> For example see https://ci.debian.net/packages/b/bubblewrap/ which also
> cannot be tested under lxc and therefore has all tests tagged as
> isolation-machine.
>
> The technical detail is that all of these situations are treated as
> being very similar:
>
> * test "x" was excluded by the current restrictions and not run at all
> * test "x" is tagged as flaky, and it failed
> * test "x" is tagged as superficial, and it succeeded
> * test "x" is tagged as skippable, and it exited with status 77
>
> If every test had one of those statuses, then you get exit status 8,
> reported by debci as neutral. You can think of this as: "we have no solid
> evidence that this package works, but also no evidence that it's broken".
>
> If at least one test had one of those statuses, and at least one other
> test was successful, and no tests failed, then you get exit status 2,
> reported by debci as success. You can think of it as "success, but
> with limitations".
>
>     smcv