Re: DEP-8: Discovering autopkgtest-capable packages

2012-04-13 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Colin Watson , 2012-04-03, 12:29: 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. Just grab Contents-source.gz files from your favourite mirror and then use grep. For exam

Re: DEP-8: Discovering autopkgtest-capable packages

2012-04-03 Thread Ian Jackson
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

DEP-8: Discovering autopkgtest-capable packages

2012-04-03 Thread Colin Watson
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. 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 package