Hi Sean, Quoting Sean Whitton (2018-12-21 13:09:59) > On Fri 21 Dec 2018 at 12:27pm +0100, Johannes Schauer wrote: > > okay, but now I'm confused how autodep8 gets triggered at all. Isn't > > autodep8 wrapping autopkgtest and not the other way round? Because sbuild > > only executes autopkgtest itself which will fail if debian/tests/control is > > missing. > > > > So how does the machinery involing autodep8 work? Can you explain in a bit > > more > > detail? > > I have not looked at the code, but I believe that autopkgtest invokes > autodep8 when there is no debian/tests/control. autodep8 then makes its > own decision about whether to generate a debian/tests/control to pass > back to autopkgtest. > > The reason I believe this is that with older sbuild, when there is no > d/tests/control, autopkgtest successfully runs the test suite. So it must be > that it is invoking autodep8.
could you check with the autopkgtest maintainers/developers about this? Thanks! cheers, josch
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