On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 09:32:19PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > [...] > > > > I'd be wary about 2.2 and 2.3. I have several packages where I know > > that an automated test will fail; there are all sorts of weird cases > > [...] > > I'd be wary about adding lintian tags for this, though: with so many > packages not being able to use the autodep8 system (I vaguely recall > someone suggesting that a third of Python packages would not be able > [...]
I realise that I may have come across as quite negative. Apologies if that is the case - it was not my intention. I think the autopkgtest-pkg-pybuild/pybuild-autodep8 work is very helpful and a positive addition to our infrastructure, and I'm very grateful to those who've made it happen. My only concern is with how it is introduced; because of the wide variety of Python packages and the hugely varying nature of the testsuites present in them (or not), I think that trying to force this into packages is a poor idea. (I wish that most of my packages could simply use this pybuild-autodep8 tool. I fear that this won't be the case, but I will certainly adopt it for those which can.) Best wishes, Julian