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Bug#870915: debian-policy: [5.6.30] Testsuite: There are much more defined values



Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> writes:

> diff --git a/policy/ch-controlfields.rst b/policy/ch-controlfields.rst
> index 61f2b23..2bc7a07 100644
> --- a/policy/ch-controlfields.rst
> +++ b/policy/ch-controlfields.rst
> @@ -1009,12 +1009,12 @@ reference whose name matches ``refs/dgit/*``. See the manual page of
>  
>  Simple field containing a comma-separated list of values allowing test
>  execution environments to discover packages which provide tests.
> -Currently, the only defined value is ``autopkgtest``.
>  
> -This field is automatically added to Debian source control files by
> -``dpkg`` when a ``debian/tests/control`` file is present in the source
> -package. This field may also be used in source package control files if
> -needed in other situations.
> +This field is automatically added to Debian binary control files by
> +``dpkg``, with the value ``autopkgtest``, when a
> +``debian/tests/control`` file is present in the source package. This
> +field may also be used in source package control files if needed in
> +other situations.
>  
>  .. _s5.7:

This seems okay, so seconded, although it would be nice to be more
specific about when this is used and what its allowable values are.  But
I'm also okay with leaving that for future work.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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