Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.9.5
Severity: wishlist
Hi Guillem and everybody,
thanks for adding direct support for the Testsuite field in Dpkg.
Here is a patch to update the Policy accordingly. Do you have comments ?
Have a nice day,
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Charles Plessy
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan
>From b2679f5e6e871c3316625d231ef88e5858d1b57c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org>
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 21:30:47 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] Document the Testsuite field.
---
policy.sgml | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)
diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index 6eac491..a8b27e2 100644
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -2666,6 +2666,7 @@ Package: libc6
<item><qref id="f-Standards-Version"><tt>Standards-Version</tt></qref> (recommended)</item>
<item><qref id="f-Homepage"><tt>Homepage</tt></qref></item>
<item><qref id="f-VCS-fields"><tt>Vcs-Browser</tt>, <tt>Vcs-Git</tt>, et al.</qref></item>
+ <item><qref id="f-Testsuite"><tt>Testsuite</tt></qref></item>
</list>
</p>
@@ -2761,6 +2762,7 @@ Package: libc6
<item><qref id="f-Uploaders"><tt>Uploaders</tt></qref></item>
<item><qref id="f-Homepage"><tt>Homepage</tt></qref></item>
<item><qref id="f-VCS-fields"><tt>Vcs-Browser</tt>, <tt>Vcs-Git</tt>, et al.</qref></item>
+ <item><qref id="f-Testsuite"><tt>Testsuite</tt></qref></item>
<item><qref id="f-Dgit"><tt>Dgit</tt></qref></item>
<item><qref id="f-Standards-Version"><tt>Standards-Version</tt></qref> (recommended)</item>
<item><qref id="sourcebinarydeps"><tt>Build-Depends</tt> et al</qref></item>
@@ -3863,6 +3865,24 @@ Checksums-Sha256:
further details.
</p>
</sect1>
+
+ <sect1 id="f-Testsuite">
+ <heading><tt>Testsuite</tt></heading>
+
+ <p>
+ Simple field containing a comma-separated list of values allowing
+ test execution environments to discover packages which provide
+ tests. Currently, the only defined value is <tt>autopkgtest</tt>.
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ This field is automatically added to Debian source control files by
+ <prgn>dpkg</prgn><footnote>from version 1.17.11.</footnote> when
+ a <file>debian/tests/control</file> file is present in the source
+ package. This field may also be used in source package control
+ files if needed in other situations.
+ </p>
+ </sect1>
</sect>
<sect>
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2.0.1
