On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 09:04:27AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > On Sat, Jul 23, 2022 at 07:52:19PM +0200, Louis-Philippe Véronneau wrote: > > == pybuild improvements == > > > > getting the autopkgtest MR in would be great > > > > https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/tools/dh-python/-/merge_requests/27 > > > > We need people to test this MR some more, although it seems fairly mature. > > > > It might be a good idea to have a line in d/control to let us migrate from > > the existing autopkgtests running unit tests to the new automated MR. > > I've been looking at this a bit more. I'm not sure what this last > paragraph means: the new "automated" autopkgtest will only be run if > the maintainer explicitly adds: > > Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-pybuild > > to debian/control (see the autodep8 MR at > https://salsa.debian.org/ci-team/autodep8/-/merge_requests/27/diffs - > it will never automatically detect a pybuild package). > And a maintainer would presumably only add that if they are also > removing their existing debian/tests/control (or want to run the > pybuild tests in addition). > > An alternative would be for the autodep8 patch to try to determine > whether to run pybuild-autopkgtest. One approach could be: > > if the package would run autopkgtest-pkg-python: > if debian/control does not contain an override_dh_auto_test stanza: > run pybuild-autopkgtest > > Note, though, that if autodep8 is called, it will run all of the > detected tests. (At least that is what I believe happens from reading > /usr/bin/autodep8; I haven't double-checked this.) So, for example, > if a package specifies > > Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-python > > it will also run the autopkgtest-pkg-pybuild suite as it will be > detected as being a Python package, and vice versa. That is a > possible reason *not* to use the above suggestion, as it would > potentially run pybuild-autopkgtest even if not desired.
I think the notes did not capture the consensus correctly. The point was that it should be possible to automate updating the `Testsuite:` field to run tests with pybuild-autopkgtest, and that we should probably do that across team packages with the help of some scripting.
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