Hi,
I'm not a Debian developer but I have some experience on Salsa CI, so I thought that I might be able to help... but then I was confused by a specific part of the message: On 17 Aug 2023 at 17:10:08, Paul Boddie wrote: [...] > For another package I have been working on, the Salsa CI facility has proven > to be usable, configured using files in debian/test, particularly as it > allows > test-related dependencies to be specified independently. However, this other > package has no dependencies that are currently unpackaged in Debian. > Meanwhile, the testing of this new Moin package depends on brand new packages > somehow being made available. If this dependencies are available on the "build" step: could they be made available on the autopkgtest? I didn't quite understand why this is not possible. I've found the autopkgtest quite flexible (since the tests are scripts that could prepare some environment) > So, I would appreciate guidance on how I might enable testing of this new > Moin > package, along with its new dependencies, in the Salsa environment or any > other appropriate environment that would satisfy Debian packaging needs and > policies. It would also be quite helpful if built packages might be published > somewhere for people to test, but this is a separate consideration even if > such packages would obviously need to be generated as part of the testing > regime. For me, the packages on the build job are made available via a Salsa artifact automatically (and easy to download as a .zip of the *.deb). I think that this happens on all the "build" jobs on Salsa CI. They can be downloaded as a .zip file (e.g. https://salsa.debian.org/freexian-team/debusine/-/jobs/4564890, right hand side "Job artifacts" and click "Download"). Would that be enough? I also created a repo and hosted it on a Salsa CI page for internal testing but this is a bit of a workaround. This is in a new job but just download the artifacts (via a Salsa CI dependency) and run dpkg-scanpackages and copy the files to the right place). Cheers, -- Carles Pina i Estany https://carles.pina.cat || Wiktionary translations: https://kamus.pina.cat
