Package: autopkgtest Version: 5.12.2~6.gbp89ad39 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer,
with the latest and greatest changes in dpkg, I think it would be nice if autopkgtest followed suit. Particularly, it would be advantageous to support running and building tests in autopkgtest under build profiles (esp. nodoc!). This would allow for smaller test footprint, less packages to pull (ie. you don't need texlive on the testbed), and faster building of the packages. I prepared a patch implementing such a change here: https://salsa.debian.org/jpalecek-guest/autopkgtest/-/commit/6275da59305d6e836cb3558f9f442479eb24fc95 The patch is functional, albeit incomplete due to missing documentation. The real issue is the control file format. In my patch, I use an extra stanza to specify build profiles, like this: >>> Build-Profiles: nodoc Tests: run-some-tests <<< I chose this format, because adding the specification to some of the tests would be IMHO misleading: the build profile applies to all of the tests indiscriminately, not to any particular one. Also, I chose to apply them to all @builddep@ dependencies as well. However, there is a problem about this: it makes the control file format non-backwards-compatible. Particularly, dpkg needs to be patched or it will croak on packages with such d/t/control. Maybe, some artificial Tests: line like Tests: * could be added? That would make the change backwards compatible. Dpkg still needs to be patched, but the change would be rather minimal. What do you think about this proposal? Please comment here or on salsa. I'm also CC-ing the dpkg developers, since it concerns them. Regards Jiri Palecek -- System Information: Debian Release: 10.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Foreign Architectures: amd64 Kernel: Linux 5.5.0-rc5-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=cs_CZ, LC_CTYPE=cs_CZ (charmap=ISO-8859-2), LANGUAGE=cs_CZ (charmap=ISO-8859-2) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages autopkgtest depends on: ii apt-utils 2.0.1 ii libdpkg-perl 1.20.0+nmu2~1.gbpcd9614 ii procps 2:3.3.16-4 ii python3 3.8.2-2 ii python3-debian 0.1.36 Versions of packages autopkgtest recommends: pn autodep8 <none> Versions of packages autopkgtest suggests: pn lxc <none> pn lxd <none> pn ovmf <none> pn qemu-efi-aarch64 <none> pn qemu-efi-arm <none> pn qemu-system <none> ii qemu-utils 1:4.2-2 ii schroot 1.6.10-9 pn vmdb2 <none> -- no debconf information
