Package: autopkgtest Version: 5.13.1 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer,
in order to run autopkgtest on porter machines, I have written a small proof-of-concept script[1]. This script starts a schroot session, installs autopkgtest and the package's binary packages into it and then tries to figure out the required test dependencies in order to install them as well, followed by running autopkgtest. It currently tries to figure out the dependencies by capturing the error output from autopkgtest first, then installing the dependencies, then running autopkgtest again. I am worried there will be cases without dependencies or where dependencies are already satisfied by installing the binary packages (and their dependencies), so autopkgtest will run twice. It would helpful if autopkgtest had a mode which basically just checks whether the test dependencies are satisfied, and if not, print them out, then exiting before actually running the tests. Michael [1] https://salsa.debian.org/mbanck/dd-autopkgtest
