On Thu, Dec 07, 2023 at 03:11:31AM -0600, Aaron Rainbolt wrote: > For this reason, I need to have every reverse dependency autopkgtested > against the new signond packages in a PPA, lest I severely clog up the > archive.
You really, REALLY don't. Pre-upload autopkgtesting in a ppa is, with few exceptions, a waste of resources. The tests are going to get re-run anyway in the actual archive, and unless it's a library with an ABI transition (== binary package rename) and a VERY LARGE list of reverse-dependencies, there's no reason to double-run the tests on the off chance that you need to fix some tests before the package can land. The signon source package has three runtime library packages with less than a dozen reverse-dependencies between them, AND the signond source package in Debian doesn't introduce any ABI changes. From a proposed-migration perspective, this is all unnecessary busywork. > I've decided to take the most painful but accurate way > possible to get a list of packages that need autopkgtested, and that is to > set up a local Britney instance following the instructions at > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ProposedMigration/LocalSetup. While it may be the most painful way, it does nothing for you with respect to accuracy unless your package is in the very short list of packages that have customizations to their autopkgtest trigger handling in the britney source code (britney2/policies/autopkgtest.py:tests_for_source() ). You're not uploading gcc or a kernel, so that's not relevant here. If I *did* need a list of packages to trigger tests for, I would: - run `reverse-depends src:signon` - map those to source packages - merge with the output from `reverse-depends src:signon -a source` (which would include any packages that declare a testsuite dependency - in this case, none) I would definitely not spend time hacking on britney for this. > * Create a new component named "universe" in my PPA and upload to it. That > seems like it would be a relatively clean and easy solution, but I have > absolutely no clue how I would go about doing this, and suspect it's not > even possible. It is not possible. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer https://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org
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