On 11/30/20 7:23 AM, Graham Inggs wrote: > Control: severity -1 normal > Control: tags -1 + moreinfo > > Hi Matthias > > On Sun, 29 Nov 2020 at 20:18, Matthias Klose <d...@debian.org> wrote: >> the autopkg test doesn't have any test dependencies > > I don't see a problem here. > >> shouldn't that add the build dependencies, which at least includes the test >> dependencies as well? > > According to the autopkgtest documentation [1]: > > If no Depends field is present, ``Depends: @`` is assumed. Note that > the source tree's Build-Dependencies are *not* necessarily > installed, and if you specify any Depends, no binary packages from > the source are installed unless explicitly requested.
debian/control explicitly lists some test dependencies. why aren't those needed as dependencies for the autopkg tests? I disagree with the current severity.
