Mattia Rizzolo writes ("Bug#902920: diffoscope: be triggered by all the
reverse-recommends"):
> currently diffoscope is triggered only by its own dependency (python3,
> python3-distutils, python3-distro, python3-libarchive-c, python3-magic)
> and only one package that is not in that set, python3-pytest.
>
> This is suboptimal: diffoscope relies *a lot* on the output of the
> programs it is calling, and as such it has a tendency on breaking every
> so often when that output changes. Usually we notice such breakage by
> accident.
>
> I would like to have all the recommended packages in the
> Testsuite-Triggers field, but I can't figure how to accomplish that
> without duplicating the list of packages a 3rd time (one in d/control,
> the other in diffoscope/external_tools.py).
>
> Any hint from the CI team would be appreciated.
My approach is to autogenerate debian/tests/control. I have a rune
which updates it, and a test case which fails when I forget :-).
(In my case debian/tests/control is generated not from debian/control,
but from the test files which contain annotations about their
dependencies, restrictions, etc.)
IMO the change you should make to your debian/tests/control is to add
a stanza like this:
Tests: hint-testsuite-triggers
Depends: gnupg, patch, diffutils
Restrictions: hint-testsuite-triggers
That example is from
https://browse.dgit.debian.org/dgit.git/tree/debian/tests/control
(with the redundant Tests-Directory field removed) and
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2018/06/msg00253.html
has my draft specification of the `hint-testsuite-triggers'
restrictions. I need to fold in the comments from the thread and
submit that as a proper bug report.
The effect of putting something like that in your debian/tests/control
is that autopkgtest will always skip the test, but the Depends get
copied to Testsuite-Triggers and used by ci.d.n.
HTH.
Regards,
Ian.
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