Control: tag -1 pending Hello Niko,
Niko Tyni [2014-09-09 22:11 +0300]: > Reading failure logs of Martin Pitt's recent mass test of pkg-perl > packages [1], there seems to be a problem with testing binary packages > that are also Provided as a virtual package. A few examples of such > packages are libhttp-tiny-perl, libio-compress-perl, and libencode-perl. > > I can see that this is probably according to the spec No, it's actually not: it says ``@`` stands for the package(s) generated by the source package containing the tests i. e. satisfying them with (unrelated) virtual packages is not the intended meaning of this. > I guess we could work around this by depending on '@ (>= 0~)' That particular hack wouldn't work, as @ is just a plain text substitution, it doesn't take any "qualifiers" into account. So this needs to be fixed in autopkgtest itself: http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/autopkgtest/autopkgtest.git/commit/?id=2b841c17c7 Thanks for pointing out this interesting edge case! BTW, I'm now running the second half of the perl mass test with this patch applied. Martin -- Martin Pitt | http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
