Ubuntu developers might be interested in this, which I just merged to the branch of autopkgtest we're using on autopkgtest.ubuntu.com[0]:
----- Forwarded message from Paul Gevers <elb...@debian.org> ----- > Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2020 18:52:58 +0100 > From: Paul Gevers <elb...@debian.org> > To: Debian Devel Announce <debian-devel-annou...@lists.debian.org> > Subject: bits from the ci.debian.net maintainers > List-Id: <debian-devel-announce.lists.debian.org> > Mail-Followup-To: debian-de...@lists.debian.org > User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 > Thunderbird/68.12.0 > > Dear all, > > With the recent upload of autopkgtest 5.15, which is available in > unstable and testing, maintainers have the ability to declare on which > architecture(s) their autopkgtests are supposed to be run [1]. This > can be done in either explicitly listing supported architectures, or > by explicitly listing unsupported architectures. The normal > dpkg-architecture wildcards apply. As an example, src:lxc already made > the change in commit [2]. > > The reason why this feature has been added is that the testing > migration software that is run by the Release Team is now taking test > results into account from four architectures: amd64, arm64, armhf and > i386. And more architectures to be added soon hopefully. > > Of course it's best that your autopkgtest is supported on all > architectures, but if that isn't feasible, too much work, or doesn't > work e.g. because of non-installability of test dependencies [3], > consider using this new field. > > Paul Gevers > Member of the debian-ci team > Member of the Release Team > > [1] > https://salsa.debian.org/ci-team/autopkgtest/-/blob/master/doc/README.package-tests.rst#L178-187 > [2] > https://salsa.debian.org/lxc-team/lxc/-/commit/18904a14a91cf3bd705d4a9c62cc64e8dd464df3 > [3] We think it's better to use this new field instead of the > skip-not-installable restriction if the problem is architecture > specific, as skip-not-installable will hide genuine problems with > installability. Regular package dependencies are already checked by > the migration software so shouldn't be an issue. > ----- End forwarded message ----- [0] https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-release/autopkgtest/+git/development -- Iain Lane [ i...@orangesquash.org.uk ] Debian Developer [ la...@debian.org ] Ubuntu Developer [ la...@ubuntu.com ]
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