On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 11:55:57AM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Mattia Rizzolo writes ("Re: Bug#903441: dgit: autopkgtest failures in 
> Ubuntu"):
> > On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 11:12:01AM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > > Thanks.  I don't have an install of cosmic and the test logs are not
> > > quite sufficient.  Can I get a copy of the temporary directory after
> > > one of these test runs ?
> > 
> > If you are not putting them in the artifacts, then no, it's not
> > possible.
> 
> I don't think it's possible to add something to the artifacts, from
> within a test.  I didn't provide any way to do that in my original
> spec or implementation.

mh?  Yes it is, just dump stuff in $AUTOPKGTEST_ARTIFACTS (defined if
the controlling engine supports it (i.e. sadt doesn't)).

> I recently reread the spec and didn't find
> it.  I ended up filing
>    #902780 want way to publish more than one logfile

ACK on the jumpled log…

> > Indeed, `dch` under ubuntu behaves differently than on Debian.  If you
> > rely on the behaviour of dch to not change amongst different vendors,
> > you should use the `--vendor` option of dch (we had several test
> > failures due to that also in the testsuite of dch itself!).
> 
> I doubt that --vendor is the right answer.  I should probably just
> pass -r unstable or something.  Normally I do that; I think I just
> missed one.

That's another option, yes.  --vendor is used only when going through
the ehuristic thing that tries to guess what you want.

> > If you wish, I can also apply a patch and try to upload it to ubuntu,
> 
> Thanks, I will probably take you up on that.

I'll wait for a debdiff to apply on top of 5.8 :)

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