Hello, Thanks for the work on this; it will make things on (at minimum) the Ubuntu side of things much, much better and will hopefully ensure higher quality Debian packages.
On 05/02/2018 04:09 PM, Paul Gevers wrote: <snip /> > For several years already, maintainers can add autopkgtest test cases to > their packages, which are then run on the continuous integration > platform on ci.debian.net [ci]. debci, the framework that runs that site > has recently been enhanced to test individual packages from unstable in > testing. We have enabled logic in britney to talk to debci to trigger > tests for packages that are candidate for migration from unstable to > testing and use the results to influence the required age in unstable > before the package can migrate to testing. The idea is that a package > that is candidate for migration is updated in testing to its candidate > version and that the autopkgtest case(s) of the package *and* those of > all reverse dependencies are run. Regression in the results with respect > to the current situation in testing will *add* to the required time a > package needs to be in unstable (via the age policy). This extra time > can then be used to investigate the situation and file proper bugs to > the appropriate package(s), if there is a bug somewhere. On the > other hand, if a package has (a) successful autopkgtest(s) and no > regression otherwise, it will be rewarded with a reduced required age. > Information on what happens is added to the excuses [excuses]. What are the added delays as of today, and is this effective immediately? > It is the intention that in the (far) future regressions will become > blocking for migration, but until then the added age will probably be > raised over time as a semi-block. What is the reasoning for not making these blocking sooner? In my honest opinion, passing autopkgtests should be a release migration requirement, and not just with my Ubuntu hat on (because it has a correlation to higher quality packages). Thanks, -- Simon Quigley tsimo...@ubuntu.com tsimonq2 on freenode and OFTC 5C7A BEA2 0F86 3045 9CC8 C8B5 E27F 2CF8 458C 2FA4
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