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Bug#989581: autopkgtest: ADTTMP is now obsolete



Hello Bill,

On Tue 29 Jun 2021 at 11:13AM +02, Bill Allombert wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 03:20:04PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote:
>> control: tag -1 + pending
>>
>> Hello Fabrice,
>>
>> On Mon 07 Jun 2021 at 11:53PM +02, Fabrice BAUZAC wrote:
>>
>> > autopkgtest.md only mentions the ADTTMP environment variable, while
>> > lintian marks ADTTMP usage as deprecated in favour of AUTOPKGTEST_TMP.
>> >
>> > See https://lintian.debian.org/tags/uses-deprecated-adttmp
>> >
>> > I think autopkgtest.md should at least mention the new variable...
>>
>> Thank you for this.  I've committed a fix -- I just changed the variable
>> name rather than using your patch, if you don't mind, because it seemed
>> unnecessary to me to mention the old name at all.
>
> Maybe add it to the upgrading-checklist.

I believe that it's been AUTOPKGTEST_TMP for a very long time now, and
it's not a normative requirement of Policy but a piece of information,
so I decided not to do this for now.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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