On Fri, May 04, 2018 at 11:55:56AM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Mattia Rizzolo writes ("Re: Dealing with ci.d.n for package regressions"):
> > On Thu, May 03, 2018 at 10:38:45PM +0200, Paul Gevers wrote:
> > > Just add it as a test dependency in one of your tests?
> >
> > Just to share a bit that doesn't seem to be of public knowledge:
> > .dsc have a Testsuite-Triggers field that is autopoulated from the
> > d/tests/control file (IIRC). I believe you are looking exactly for
> > this field.
>
> Really ? /me looks. Cor, so there is.
>
> Is that documented somewhere ? I can't find it here
> https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/dpkg-dev/dpkg-source.1.en.html
> https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/dpkg-dev/deb-src-control.5.en.html
It's in the .dsc, so you want dsc(5) :)
> Testsuite-Triggers: package-list
> This field declares the comma-separated union of all test
> dependencies (Depends fields in debian/tests/control file),
> with all restrictions removed, and OR dependencies flattened,
> except for binaries generated by this source package and
> meta-dependencies such as @ or @builddeps@.
>
> Rationale: this field is needed because otherwise to be able to
> get the test dependencies, each source package would need to be
> unpacked.
-- https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/dpkg-dev/dsc.5.en.html
James
