Guillem Jover writes ("Re: [DEP 8] About "XS-Testsuite: autopkgtest": time to remove "XS-" ?"): > On Fri, 2014-01-03 at 19:40:54 +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: > > No, it just means that I gave up. > > Oh, ok. :/ Personally I see it has similar drawbacks to the discarded > Build-Options field that some people wanted to use to list support for > build-arch/build-indep targets, the difference here is, that I can see > it also being useful so that autopkgtest implementations don't take over > the debian/tests/control pathname as the sole owners, and alternative > implementations could use that file with different deb822 contents, for > example.
That proposal is an incompatible change to the existing DEP-8 specification, which does not require a DEP-8 test runner to check the Testsuite field. Having said that, I think the new field is a good idea to make it easier for software to find packages with tests. Also, a package might have two test suites, which would have to have different filenames. > So, I guess I'll just go ahead and add the two line patch needed to > recognize the field for 1.17.6; queued now locally for my next push. Thanks, Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/21194.41867.663858.687...@chiark.greenend.org.uk