Package: autopkgtest
Version: 5.13.1
Quack,
Our Ruby tool dh-make-ruby suggested a nice reformating/reordering of
debian/tests/control and this seemingly benign change broke the world:
https://salsa.debian.org/ruby-team/redmine/-/jobs/683636
Now i finally found out that reordering back certain dependencies fixed
the problem (redmine-<db> before redmine, so that redmine-sqlite is not
dragged in when trying to test another database):
https://salsa.debian.org/ruby-team/redmine/-/jobs/683699
So it seems autopkgtest is not running apt with the content of the
Depends field but installing them one by one in specified order. As much
as I understand it can be very useful to solve complex testing cases,
this is not how our usual resolver works and I was unable to find
anything about it in the documentation. From what I can see in #923468
I'm not the only one not understanding that.
(unless I'm totally mistaken, it's late here) Could you document the
exact behavior and give recommendations on how to set the Depends
please?
Regards.
\_o<
--
Marc Dequènes
