Bug#808319: britney: Allow skipping the second (upgrade testing) stage

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

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Martin Pitt:
> Package: release.debian.org
> Severity: normal
> Tags: patch
> User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
> Usertags: britney
> 
> Hello,
> 
> It's sometimes useful to run britney in "dry mode" to run tests on the
> unstable packages, but not the full second-stage upgrade test. This is
> even more useful if/once britney can trigger and evaluate
> autopkgtests, but even the current Debian ones are interesting.
> 
> Support this by skipping the upgrade test instead of crashing if the
> UPGRADE_OUTPUT option in britney.conf is empty or absent.
> 
> Thanks for considering,
> 
> Martin
> 

Hi Martin,

Thanks for the patch and the interest in improving Britney.

I appreciate the idea, though I think we would be better served with a
different implementation.  For example using a command-line option, so
we do not need a separate config file for using such a feature.

Thanks,
~Niels