Bug#692282: [new check] debian/tests/control but not (XS-)Testsuite: autopkgtest header in debian/control

[Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>]

Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.10.2
Severity: wishlist

[ context is https://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2012/11/msg00009.html where we
  are discussing the integration of autopkgtest runs with the new
  jenkins.debian.net service ]

For discoverability, packages shipping tests for the autopkgtest testing
framework [1] should declare their presence using an "XS-Testsuite:
autopkgtest" header in debian/control (see last section of [2]).

At present, only 3 packages in sid/main have that header [3], whereas 68
packages have a debian/tests/control file [4].

Can you please add a lintian test that will warn if a debian/tests/control file
exists, but no "XS-Testsuite: autopkgtest" header is present in the source
stanza of debian/control ?

I'll propose a wishlist mass-bug-filing to fix the packages already in the
archive, but the test would be nice to both avoid the problem in the future,
and more easily quantify its presence in the archive.


Thanks for maintaining lintian!
Cheers.


[1]: http://packages.qa.debian.org/a/autopkgtest.html
[2]: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=autopkgtest/autopkgtest.git;a=blob_plain;f=doc/README.package-tests;hb=HEAD
[3]: see attached autopkgtest-list.header.txt , obtained starting from
     $ wget -q http://http.debian.net/debian/dists/unstable/main/source/Sources.bz2 -O- | bunzip2 -c | grep-dctrl -s Package -F Testsuite autopkgtest -
[4]: see attached autopkgtest-list.content.txt , obtained starting from
     $ wget -q http://http.debian.net/debian/dists/unstable/main/Contents-source.gz -O- | zgrep -m1 -E '^debian/tests/control\s'

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils                       2.22-7.1
ii  bzip2                          1.0.6-4
ii  diffstat                       1.55-3
ii  file                           5.11-2
ii  gettext                        0.18.1.1-9
ii  hardening-includes             2.2
ii  intltool-debian                0.35.0+20060710.1
ii  libapt-pkg-perl                0.1.26+b1
ii  libarchive-zip-perl            1.30-6
ii  libc-bin                       2.13-36
ii  libclass-accessor-perl         0.34-1
ii  libclone-perl                  0.31-1+b2
ii  libdpkg-perl                   1.16.9
ii  libemail-valid-perl            0.190-1
ii  libipc-run-perl                0.92-1
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl  1.2.0-1
ii  libtimedate-perl               1.2000-1
ii  liburi-perl                    1.60-1
ii  locales                        2.13-36
ii  locales-all [locales]          2.13-36
ii  man-db                         2.6.3-1
ii  patchutils                     0.3.2-1.1
ii  perl [libdigest-sha-perl]      5.14.2-14

lintian recommends no packages.

Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn  binutils-multiarch     <none>
ii  dpkg-dev               1.16.9
ii  libhtml-parser-perl    3.69-2
pn  libperlio-gzip-perl    <none>
ii  libtext-template-perl  1.45-2
ii  man-db                 2.6.3-1
ii  xz-utils [lzma]        5.1.1alpha+20120614-1

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