Colin Watson writes ("DEP-8: Discovering autopkgtest-capable packages"):
> DEP-8 currently appears to define no way to discover which packages
> contain debian/tests/control files. The only way to discover this is to
> unpack the source package.
Yes.
> I think it would be helpful for this to be advertised as a bit in the
> .dsc file, which would make it easy to scan for such packages in a
> Sources file. Perhaps something like "Autopkgtest: yes"?
That would be fine by me. Do we want to provide any more
compact/extensible syntax ? Who should generate this flag in the .dsc ?
(dpkg-source, from the existence of tests/control ?)
Ian.
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