Bug#876003: lintian: Wrong description of tag unknown-testsuite

[Rafael Laboissière <rafael@debian.org>]

* Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org> [2017-09-17 10:32]:

> > but autopkgtest is not the only value allowed.
>
> Hm, are you sure? Note that this is referring to the *source* 
> package's .dsc file; which is, I believe, almost entirely separate 
> from the value in debian/control.
>
> Note that the linked "Ref" link:
>
>  https://anonscm.debian.org/git/autopkgtest/autopkgtest.git/tree/doc/README.package-tests.rst
>
> … says:
>
>  To allow test execution environments to discover packages which provide
>  tests, their source packages need to have a ``Testsuite:`` header
>  containing ``autopkgtest`` (which is currently the only defined value).

Please, note the word "currently" in the sentence above.  That part of 
the document (as revealed by git blame) was not changed since 2014-06-25. 
This predates the inclusion of autokgtest-pkg-* valid values by the 
autodep8 package whose development, according to git log, started on 
2014-09-14.

IMHO, the description in README.package-tests.rst is wrong.  BTW, I am 
going to file a bug report on this issue against autopkgtest.

At any rate, your explanation is incoherent with the current behavior of 
Lintian (v 2.5.52).  With the current version of the octave-image 
package, the following warning is triggered:

   W: octave-image source: unknown-testsuite autopkgtest-pkg-octave

However, if the Testsuite field contained autopkgtest-pkg-go, 
autopkgtest-pkg-elpa, etc., then the warning would not triggered, which 
proves that Lintian *_does_* accept other values than just "autopkgtest".

Best,

Rafael