Bug#876003: lintian: Wrong description of tag unknown-testsuite

tags 876003 + pending thanks Hi Rafael, > At any rate, your explanation is incoherent with the current behavior of > Lintian (v 2.5.52). With the current version of the octave-image > package, the following warning It might be "incoherent" but the goal here is surely to either fix the

Bug#876003: lintian: Wrong description of tag unknown-testsuite

* Rafael Laboissière [2017-09-17 11:59]: IMHO, the description in README.package-tests.rst is wrong. BTW, I am going to file a bug report on this issue against autopkgtest. Done: https://bugs.debian.org/876008 Rafael

Bug#876003: lintian: Wrong description of tag unknown-testsuite

* Chris Lamb [2017-09-17 10:32]: but autopkgtest is not the only value allowed. Hm, are you sure? Note that this is referring to the *source* package's .dsc file; which is, I believe, almost entirely separate from the value in debian/control. Note that the linked "Ref"

Bug#876003: lintian: Wrong description of tag unknown-testsuite

Hey Rafael, > but autopkgtest is not the only value allowed. Hm, are you sure? Note that this is referring to the *source* package's .dsc file; which is, I believe, almost entirely separate from the value in debian/control. Note that the linked "Ref" link:

Bug#876003: lintian: Wrong description of tag unknown-testsuite

Package: lintian Version: 2.5.52 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Please, change the description of tag unknown-testsuite. It contains now: The dsc file sets Testsuite to a value other than autopkgtest, the only one allowed. This field is most probably copied by dpkg-source from