On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 09:50:02AM -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > But there is somewhat a problem with all the grepping approaches is when > dealing with multiple APT repositories. Source header field indeed could > have helped to locate the packages with tests regardless of their origin.
Also: 1) No matter how precise, grepping for debian/tests/control is a heuristic. One can, say, have a test called "control" for a testing framework entirely unrelated to autopkgtest. Given that that interface is not in Policy (yet) it'd be better to declare explicitly that the package is using autopkgtest instead of relying on heuristics. 2) Packages/Sources is a pretty popular interface to find package metdata, there are several pieces of the Debian infrastructure out there that happily live on those alone. Now, if they want to process the information "does this package have a autopkgtest suite?", forcing them to also acquire Contents seem unneeded, considering Packages/Sources is a well-established interface already. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . [email protected] . . . . o . . . o . o Maître de conférences . . . . . http://upsilon.cc/zack . . . o . . . o o Debian Project Leader . . . . . . @zack on identi.ca . . o o o . . . o . « the first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club »
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