Hi Sean, Quoting Sean Whitton (2018-12-20 15:30:12) > sbuild in stretch unconditionally invokes autopkgtest even if the file > debian/tests/control is not present in the source package. Newer sbuild > does not invoke autopkgtest unless that file is present. > > Many packages do not have debian/tests/control, and simply have a > Testsuite: field, which causes autopkgtest to invoke autodep8 to > generate an appropriate debian/tests/control. Under stretch, such > packages test suites would be run by sbuild, but now they are not. > > This seems like a regression since stretch. Perhaps, at least, there > could be an option to revert to always invoking autopkgtest when > --run-autopkgtest is passed? --definitely-run-autopkgtest?
why not instead also check for the Testsuite field in debian/control and never run autopkgtest if both the field is missing and debian/tests/control is missing. Would that fix this problem? Thanks! cheers, josch
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