Hi Daniel, Thanks for your report.
On 07-05-2019 22:39, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > It would be nice if debhelper noticed that when autodep8 was in the > build-dependencies of a package, it autogenerated the test somehow. > That way a developer could just declare the build-dependency and not > worry about needing to re-run "autodep8 > debian/tests/control" to keep > things updated. This is not the recommended way of using autodep8, albeit it does fix an issue that is worrying me a bit [1]. You are supposed to add a "Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-<flavor>" to the source stanza of your package and never look back. See $(man autodep8). > my debhelper skills and understanding of autopkgtest are not deep enough > to know how to do that exactly, so i'm opening this feature request. But I'll leave this bug open to think about it. Paul [1] currently the autopkgtest framework uses the version of autodep8 from the host, which is typically up-to-date. However the test may have only been working with an older version of autodep8. E.g. package from stable/stretch that pass with autodep8 from stable/stretch may fail with autodep8 from buster.
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