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Re: Dealing with ci.d.n for package regressions



On Thu, May 03, 2018 at 10:38:45PM +0200, Paul Gevers wrote:
> > 4. Can we have a way to trigger tests from updates of non-direct
> > rdepends ?  At some point in the future maybe we will run tests of
> > whole batches of updates and then have some algorithm to chop out
> > what the failures are caused by, but for now it would be useful to
> > be able to declare a specific indirect dependency for test trigger.
> > Maybe an XS- header field ?
> 
> Just add it as a test dependency in one of your tests?

Just to share a bit that doesn't seem to be of public knowledge:
.dsc have a Testsuite-Triggers field that is autopoulated from the
d/tests/control file (IIRC).  I believe you are looking exactly for
this field.

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