Bug#973336: apt: test suite dependency valgrind is not available on armel (Was: apt autopkgtest-virt-lxc failure on armel)
On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 12:14:58PM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 10:42:21AM +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 02:54:46PM +0900, Ryutaroh Matsumoto wrote:
> > > Source: apt
>
> > Well valgrind is not available on armel, so the test suite
> > can't run as it needs valgrind for a test.
> >
> > I don't think we have a sane way to express test recommends,
> > so while the test could be skipped if valgrind is not available,
> > I don't see how to make valgrind optional.
>
> Restrictions: skip-not-installable
This would skip the entire test suite, which makes it pointless. I'm
not gonna run each test case on its own, and there's no difference
between tests that always failed or were always skipped, so it's
pointless.
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