Package: autopkgtest
Version: 5.22
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: Julian Andres Klode <j...@debian.org>, Martin Pitt
<mp...@debian.org>
autopkgtest has a significant amount of code to deal with Ubuntu 'click'
packages, mostly contributed by Martin Pitt (who I'm aware no longer
works for Canonical, but I'm cc'ing him for context).
However, click seems to be dead: the package in Debian is maintained
by the UBports team, is RC-buggy and has never been in testing, and
the package in Ubuntu seems to have been removed after 16.04 (and then
migrated back in from Debian in 22.04, but only in universe). I believe
it may have evolved into Snap? Or if not, Snap seems to have taken its
place as Canonical's preferred package format for third-party software.
I don't think any of the current autopkgtest maintainers know how to
build or test a click package, so this is just going to bit-rot. Are
automated tests for click packages still something that is useful? If yes,
someone from Ubuntu/Canonical should pick up responsibility for that part
of autopkgtest; or if not, I'd like to reduce the scope of autopkgtest
back to .deb.
Similarly, are setup-commands/ro-apt, setup-commands/ro-apt-update,
ssh-setup/adb still relevant?
Thanks,
smcv
