Bug#944458: britney doesn't run autopkg tests for binNMUs
Package: release.debian.org
Severity: important
User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
Usertags: britney
britney doesn't run autopkg tests for binNMUs. E.g. for a library transition,
britney only runs the tests triggered by the library package, it doesn't run the
autopkg tests for all the packages built with the new library version. Things
known not to be catched are at least:
* A library rebuild causes an ABI change in another library. E.g. when
boost is rebuilt with a new version of icu, it changes ABI (that seems
to be not the case in recent boost versions).
However this kind of thing is currently not detected.
* binNMUs picking up unrelated changes, and failing. E.g. dh-python now
generates dependencies on python2 instead of python, but the autopkg
tests still call python.
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