On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 08:40:39PM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote: > Control: tag -1 + pending
> On Mon, 20 Mar 2017 12:13:50 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > Thanks for the bug report and catching this glitch. > > Since these are automatically-generated autopkgtests for perl modules, > > rather than ones manually declared in debian/test/control, there is no > > opportunity to set the environment variable for test environments where it > > is required. > There is: environment variables for the smoke autopkgtests can be set > via debian/tests/pkg-perl/smoke-env (since pkg-perl-autopkgtest version > 0.26). > Cf. https://pkg-perl.alioth.debian.org/autopkgtest.html#smoke (or > /usr/share/doc/pkg-perl-autopkgtest/README.autopkgtest in > pkg-perl-autopkgtest). > > I would recommend reverting the environment variable to the previous sense. > I'd rather leave the variable as is, as we (tried to) standardize on > this version across lots of packages. > I've now added the variable to debian/tests/pkg-perl/smoke-env for > the next upload after the stretch release [0], and I'll add a TODO item > to the Debian Perl Team's OpenTask page to review this situation for > all affected packages. Oh, good to know - that wasn't obvious from the changelog of this package that it was being standardized in pkg-perl-autopkgtest. I'll go ahead with cherry-picking this change into Ubuntu. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org
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