Re: Auto reject if autopkgtest of reverse dependencies fail or cause FTBFS

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Lars Wirzenius writes ("Re: Auto reject if autopkgtest of reverse dependencies fail or cause FTBFS"):
> Until an unreliable test is fixed, in my opinion it'd be better if the
> test suite didn't fail because of it. Run the test by all means, to
> gather more information for debugging, but don't fail the whole test
> suite.

autopkgtest can report individual test failures without "failing the
whole test suite".

There is new functionality needed to be able to do this in cases where
there are many test results run by one upstream script.

An override mechanism ought to operate on individual autopkgtest
tests, at least by default.  (Maybe it ought to operate on glob
patterns.)

Ian.

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