Re: Python related autopkgtest anti-pattern

2020-03-21 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Saturday, March 21, 2020 1:41:14 AM EDT Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Wednesday, March 18, 2020 6:32:22 PM EDT Scott Kitterman wrote: > > I'm currently reviewing some of the autopkgtest regressions that are > > currently blocking python3-defaults with python3.8 as the default python3 > > from migr

Re: Python related autopkgtest anti-pattern

2020-03-20 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Wednesday, March 18, 2020 6:32:22 PM EDT Scott Kitterman wrote: > I'm currently reviewing some of the autopkgtest regressions that are > currently blocking python3-defaults with python3.8 as the default python3 > from migrating. > > With the current state of the environment being used for autop

Re: Python related autopkgtest anti-pattern

2020-03-19 Thread Simon McVittie
On Thu, 19 Mar 2020 at 09:27:35 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > The fact that these tests are failing right now makes them relatively easy to > find, but even if they weren't failing, I still think testing against > installed > versions is wrong. Tests should have an intentional scope, not act

Re: Python related autopkgtest anti-pattern

2020-03-19 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Thursday, March 19, 2020 6:40:00 AM EDT Simon McVittie wrote: > On Wed, 18 Mar 2020 at 18:32:22 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > We want the tests to run against all versions, but the way to do that is > > to > > have your test depend on python3-all (to make sure that all supported > > versions

Re: Python related autopkgtest anti-pattern

2020-03-19 Thread Simon McVittie
On Wed, 18 Mar 2020 at 18:32:22 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > We want the tests to run against all versions, but the way to do that is to > have your test depend on python3-all (to make sure that all supported > versions > are installed) and then use the -s flag for py3versions vice -i. So (i

Re: Python related autopkgtest anti-pattern

2020-03-19 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi all On 18-03-2020 23:32, Scott Kitterman wrote: > I'm currently reviewing some of the autopkgtest regressions that are > currently > blocking python3-defaults with python3.8 as the default python3 from > migrating. Thanks Scott for helping here (all help is welcome). I thought it might be u