On 27 December 2013 16:35, Guillem Jover <guil...@debian.org> wrote: > Hi! > > On Fri, 2013-12-27 at 17:41:26 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: >> the use of autopkgtest as documented in DEP 8 is taking momentum. >> >> How about allowing a "Testsuite" field to replace the "XS-Testsuite" field? > > Last time this came up here, it didn't look like we got consensus on > whether the field was needed at all. Do you know how many packages > are there with autopkgtest support, and how many do not declare the > field?
It is needed as per spec and the currently running implementations. It is needed to run against repositories without Contents-source indices generated. And contents-source indices do not indicate package version numbers, this is needed when tests are added or removed. Contents-source indices appear to be behind publishes Sources.gz, thus introducing propagation delay. There seems to be a clear consensus that it is needed among the people who designed, implemented, write tests for, and are running them. Can you remind, why is it not needed? -- Regards, Dimitri. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CANBHLUjkHXSXYf=utmXU6jGAzL7zkVno9___kSu=Byb79Bi=v...@mail.gmail.com
