[Python-apps-team] Bug#933100: hg-git: autopkgtest needs update for new version of git

[Greg Price]

Control: affects -1 - src:git

On Fri, 26 Jul 2019 20:07:31 +0200 Paul Gevers <elbrus at debian.org> wrote:
> With a recent upload of git the autopkgtest of hg-git fails in testing
> when that autopkgtest is run with the binary packages of git from
> unstable. It passes when run with only packages from testing. In tabular
> form:
>                        pass            fail
> git                    from testing    1:2.22.0-1
> hg-git                 from testing    0.8.12-1.1
> all others             from testing    from testing
>
> I copied some of the output at the bottom of this report. It seems your
> test is picky about capitalization of output generated by a binary (git)
> provided by the git package. Please fix your test.

I'm not quite sure whether this test in hg-git was ever fixed, but in
any case I believe it no longer affects git: the delay eventually
expired and a new git version migrated. (As have several more new
versions since then.)

Cheers,
Greg