Hello,
On Wed 26 Feb 2020 at 09:36PM +01, gregor herrmann wrote:
> Oh right, treating exit status 77 as "skipped test which was declared
> skippable", is probably newer.
>
> I guess that is
>
> autopkgtest (5.4) unstable; urgency=medium
>
> * Add support for tests declaring themselves to have been skipped
>
> -- Paul Gevers <elbrus@debian.org> Mon, 02 Jul 2018 11:50:21 +0200
>
> Although buster has 5.10, so I'm not sure about the exact timeline
> even if the symptoms fit together.
>
> On the perl side: https://bugs.debian.org/922264
> (quite lengthy)
> Aha, this points to a change in autodep8 which was merged exactly a
> year ago, and the release is newer than buster:
>
> autodep8 (0.19) unstable; urgency=medium
>
> * perl support: use tags skippable and superficial
>
> -- Paul Gevers <elbrus@debian.org> Fri, 13 Sep 2019 21:49:46 +0200
>
>
> So yeah, this works fine on testing an unstable, and probably with
> the autodep8 from buster-backports, but not in pure buster.
> ("Works fine" includes all Debian infrastructure, at least I'm not
> aware of any autopkgtest failure because of this exit 77.)
Thanks for the investigation. I might investigate updating to some
versions from backports.
--
Sean Whitton
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