Re: migration of libconfig-model-perl to testing is blocked by autopkgtest
On Thursday, 16 January 2020 12:05:23 CET Paul Gevers wrote:
> > Which, if I'm not mistaken, might be a hint to a missing dependency
> > or more probably a missing Breaks.
>
> Most of the time, yes. Well, as said above, sometimes one doesn't want
> to add the versioned Breaks merrily for the autopkgtest failure.
Heh, I can't say I'm merry about it ;-) But I don't see any harm beyond 2
extra lines in debian/control which will be cleaned up by cme in.. err... a
few years..
> In that
> case, the only option one has is to ask the release team to intervene.
I'd rather avoid adding more work to release team. I'm going to add the
Breaks: old-stuff line in debian/control
> PS: if this happens too often, we may want a "Breaks-Autopkgtest" field
> or something, but in the last year, that seems to be not really needed,
> albeit I had to manually intervene a couple of times.
Another way around is to change my tests so that warnings tests are skipped
when launched by autopkgtest. I'll see what I can do.
Thanks for you help
Dod
Reply to: