Your message dated Sun, 28 Dec 2025 21:18:55 +0000
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and subject line Bug#970945: fixed in acorn-fdisk 3.0.6-14
has caused the Debian Bug report #970945,
regarding acorn-fdisk: autopkgtest must be marked superficial
to be marked as done.
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Source: acorn-fdisk
Severity: important
Usertags: superficialtest
X-Debbugs-CC: [email protected]
Dear Maintainer,
It has been noticed that the autopkgtest in acorn-fdisk is running a
trivial command that does not provide significant test coverage:
-Test-Command: acorn-fdisk --help | grep Usage
-Test-Command: acorn-fdisk --version | grep arm-fdisk
Executing that command is considered to be a trivial test, which
does not provide significant coverage for a package as a whole.
But these tests are a useful way to detect regressions in dependencies
and prevent them from breaking your package.
However, it is important that we are realistic about the level of
test coverage provided by these commands: most regressions cannot be
detected in this way. So it is not appropriate for packages with only
superficial tests to have the reduced migration time to migrate from
unstable to testing as that means less opportunity for testing by users
compared to the package with no tests.
To support this, the keyword "Restrictions: superficial" has been
defined [1]. Packages where all tests are marked with this keyword are not
considered for the reduced migration age from unstable to testing, and
will not be allowed to migrate automatically in later stages of the
freeze [2].
Its always better to have more extensive testing than having
superficial testing, which again is better than having no test.
Please consider i) Adding a non-trivial test, and/or ii) Mark the
trivial test with "Restrictions: superficial", similar to
[3] or [4].
The Release Team has listed this issue in the list of Release Critical
Issues for bullseye [5] and has mentioned that the test must be marked
superficial if it is not testing one of its own installed binary
packages in some way. As a result, the severity of this bug report might
be increased to serious in future.
[1]
https://salsa.debian.org/ci-team/autopkgtest/-/blob/master/doc/README.package-tests.rst#defined-restrictions
[2] https://release.debian.org/bullseye/freeze_policy.html
[3]
https://salsa.debian.org/utopia-team/dbus/-/commit/a80908df7d119b181eec5eb0542634a30c2ad468
[4]
https://salsa.debian.org/apparmor-team/apparmor/-/commit/580667513a097088ebe579884b38ac8d8666d3b3
[5] https://release.debian.org/bullseye/rc_policy.txt
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Regards
Sudip
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: acorn-fdisk
Source-Version: 3.0.6-14
Done: Chris Hofstaedtler <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
acorn-fdisk, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Chris Hofstaedtler <[email protected]> (supplier of updated acorn-fdisk package)
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Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2025 15:50:17 +0100
Source: acorn-fdisk
Architecture: source
Version: 3.0.6-14
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian QA Group <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Chris Hofstaedtler <[email protected]>
Closes: 970945
Changes:
acorn-fdisk (3.0.6-14) unstable; urgency=medium
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* QA upload.
* d/t/control: mark tests as superficial (Closes: #970945)
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