Hi! On Wed, 2014-08-20 at 09:44:45 -0300, Antonio Terceiro wrote: > There are cases when you want to add it explicitly, e.g. when someone > comes up with a new possible value for it that is not automatically > added yet. > > Testsuite: mynewthing > > or even > > Testsuite: autopkgtest, mynewthing > > So maybe we could review the text like this: > > <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> > <prgn>dpkg-source</prgn><footnote>from <prgn>dpkg-dev</prgn> version > 1.17.11.</footnote> will automatically add this field to Debian source > control files with the value <tt>autopkgtest</tt> if 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, for example to declare other test suite > handlers that are not yet automatically detected by dpkg. > </p>
Except for the last dpkg which should probably be dpkg-source, I do like this version better. Also perhaps worth mentioning that dpkg-source will remove the value if there is no debian/tests/control file (and emit a warning). I've also noticed that dsc(5) specifies this field as space-separated in contradiction to the current implementations, which I'll be fixing for dpkg 1.19.0. Thanks, Guillem
