Re: [deb-ci] testing sysvinit scripts when both sysvinit and systemd supported by package

[Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>]

Hi,

On Tue, 2017-06-13 at 09:13 +0200, phil@reseau-libre.net wrote:
> I'm writting deb-ci tests to check backward support to sysvinit for 
> openscap-daemon. I've written a sysvinit script, the systemd service 
> file also exists [1].
> 
> The problem is that the deb-ci test (which run explicitly 
> /etc/init.d/openscap-daemon) fails because adt-run create a testbed
> with 
> systemd installed, even if i specified a test-dependency on sysv-rc, 
> sysv-rc-conf, sysvinit-core, sysvinit-utils.

Just installing sysvinit-core doesn't make sysvinit the active init
system: you need to reboot.

I think the boot-smoke test in the systemd source package does that. 
At least it claims to check that rebooting 20 times works.  The
autopkgtest documentation also mentions "needs-reboot".

Ansgar