Bug#806420: debian-edu: test suite times out on ci.debian.net

[Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>]

[Holger Levsen]
> what are the different purposes?

The debian/tests/ scripts check installabability and desktop selection
using different mechanism from the one used by jenkins.  I would say the
purpose of the autopkgtest scripts is to check that the metapackages
work as they should (ie have the corret tasksel hooks in place), while
the jenkins scripts is to check if the dependencies of the metapackages
are installable.  They tend to fail both at the same time, but they
might also fail independenty, depending on the error situation.

I still do not quite understand why did you bring in the jenkins test
into this discussion?  Can you explain what you had in mind?

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Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen