Re: Migration of packages blocked if (Build-)Depends are missing on some test architectures
On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 11:35:17AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> On Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 10:24:25PM +0100, Paul Gevers wrote:
> > > What I mean when looking at the armhf log[1] this starts with>
> > > autopkgtest [21:45:36]: host ci-worker-armhf-01; command line: /usr/bin/autopkgtest --no-built-binaries '--setup-commands=echo '"'"'drop-seq unstable/armhf'"'"' > /var/tmp/debci.pkg 2>&1 || true' --user debci --apt-upgrade '--add-apt-source=deb http://incoming.debian.org/debian-buildd buildd-experimental main contrib non-free' --add-apt-release=experimental --pin-packages=experimental=src:plexus-archiver --output-dir /tmp/tmp.R29JBBc7iX/autopkgtest-incoming/unstable/armhf/d/drop-seq/7114930 drop-seq -- lxc --sudo --name ci-265-4a1a79f8 autopkgtest-unstable-armhf
> >
> > This log was used to test plexus-archiver. Indeed, when we schedule
> > tests for other packages, we don't check if the package we schedule is
> > installable. I don't think there's much harm though, as this is not a
> > regression, so this isn't in the way of any maintainer.
>
> My point is that the reault is "FAIL" but I think this is not sensible
> in the case I was talking about. It makes no sense to declare a package
> broken on some architecture if its clear from the beginning that it can
> not be installed there. But I agree that it is hard to distinguish from
> cases where exactly this non-installability is the error debci should
> detect.
>
> > > For me that's an attempt to run a test when apt starts getting files.
> > > That's what I was talking about.
> >
> > Ok. Do you think this is a problem somehow?
>
> It looks like a waste of resources (not only on the computing time also
> for the maintainer who needs to scroll down a longish log instead of a
> log that yould be way shorter).
Maybe it is possible to do something similar to wanna-build and use the
output of dose-debcheck to determine the packages that have
unsatisfiable test dependencies ?
-Ralf.
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