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and subject line Bug#1000802: fixed in autopkgtest 5.52
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regarding autopkgtest: quicker way to iterate over autopkgtests while writing
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Package: autopkgtest
Version: 5.16
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
Hello,
while adding autopkgtests to a package, it seems the only way to iterate over
them (adding new tests, fix broken ones) is to fix them in the source package
and rebuild it.
There are packages that takes hours to build, and that's essentially to write
a handful of files in the source package.
Is there a better way to incrementally work on autopkgtests that doesnt require
to waste hours (sometimes days) just waiting for the source package to build?
I think that would greatly improve the developers experience.
Thanks,
Sandro
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 5.14.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages autopkgtest depends on:
ii apt-utils 2.3.12
ii libdpkg-perl 1.20.9
ii procps 2:3.3.17-5
ii python3 3.9.8-1
ii python3-debian 0.1.39
Versions of packages autopkgtest recommends:
ii autodep8 0.24
Versions of packages autopkgtest suggests:
ii lxc 1:4.0.10-1
pn lxd <none>
pn ovmf <none>
pn qemu-efi-aarch64 <none>
pn qemu-efi-arm <none>
pn qemu-system <none>
ii qemu-utils 1:6.1+dfsg-8+b1
ii schroot 1.6.10-12
pn vmdb2 <none>
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: autopkgtest
Source-Version: 5.52
Done: Paride Legovini <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
autopkgtest, 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.
Paride Legovini <[email protected]> (supplier of updated autopkgtest package)
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Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2025 23:04:59 +0100
Source: autopkgtest
Architecture: source
Version: 5.52
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian CI team <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Paride Legovini <[email protected]>
Closes: 844123 1000802 1118417
Changes:
autopkgtest (5.52) unstable; urgency=medium
.
[ Paride Legovini ]
* Fix Launchpad owner validation in PPA sources.
Thanks to Marco Trevisan (3v1n0)
* d/t/control unshare: add missing distro-info test dependency.
Thanks to Athos Ribeiro (LP: #2126690)
* build-lxd: pass setup-script, await-boot via pipe instead of redirect
* setup-testbed: add motd-news-config to the list of packages to purge
* pre-commit: bump ruff-pre-commit pinned version, no changes needed
.
[ Antonio Terceiro ]
* Document how to work on tests without needing to rebuild (Closes: #1000802)
.
[ Christian Kastner ]
* qemu: Implement arbitrary host directory sharing
.
[ Paul Gevers ]
* tests: drop have_apt code fragment unused since commit 6ac81a0
* doc: explain how one can run with sysvinit in a VM (Closes: #844123)
* doc: mark skip-not-installable as deprecated
.
[ Frode Nordahl ]
* setup-testbed: Ensure lxd-agent-loader is retained when present in image
(LP: #2127063).
.
[ Simon McVittie ]
* d/control, d/tests/control: Depend on bsdutils when running tests
(Closes: #1118417)
.
[ Jochen Sprickerhof ]
* unshare: add --mirror option
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