Re: Mass bugs filing: autopkgtest should be marked superficial (new list)
HI Mattia,
On Sat, Sep 19, 2020 at 8:58 PM Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Sep 19, 2020 at 08:39:44PM +0100, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> > After discussing with few people, I now intend to file them with
> > "severity: important" and I will also reduce the severity of the
> > previously open similar bugs to 'important'.
>
> That's good.
>
> But please also share your proposed text with this list (as the MBF
> rules asks for). Your past filings where IMHO written with a tone that
> could be improved. Also I would like to make sure that you include
> stuff like your plans with the severity, references to the release team
> decisions, etc.
Apologies for the tone. It was my first MBF and I was struggling to
make the text more generalised so that it will work for all the
packages in the list.
For this new list of packages, how is the following text:
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Subject: <package>: autopkgtest must be marked superficial
severity: important
Dear maintainer,
It has been noticed that the autpkgtest in <package> is running a
trivial command.
- <list the command being run>
Those kind of tests are considered to not provide significant coverage
for a package as a whole, and as such the keyword "Restrictions:
superficial" has been defined [1]. Packages with all tests marked as
'superficial' are not considered for the reduced migration age from
unstable to testing and also they will not be allowed to migrate in a
later stage of the freeze [2].
The Release Team has listed this issue in the list of Release Critical
Issues for bullseye [3] and has mentioned that the test must be marked
superficial if it is not testing one of its own installed binary
packages in some way.
[1]. https://salsa.debian.org/ci-team/autopkgtest/-/blob/master/doc/README.package-tests.rst
[2]. https://release.debian.org/bullseye/freeze_policy.html
[3]. https://release.debian.org/bullseye/rc_policy.txt
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Regards
Sudip
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