[Boxer-devel] Bug#935608: Bug#935608: boxer-data: autopkgtest sort of depends on arora which is not in bullseye

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Hi Paul,

Quoting Paul Gevers (2019-08-24 15:37:13)
> I was looking into the failure of your package on the ci.debian.org 
> infrastructure when run in testing. One of your autopkgtests tries in 
> an obscure way to install arora, which isn't available in bullseye (or 
> even buster). Could you please have a look and improve your 
> autopkgtest? Is it really needed to install package in your test to 
> test boxer-data? It is very much recommended to just make your 
> autopkgtest depend on required packages. Obviously if it's the purpose 
> of your package to install stuff, that doesn't work.
> 
> If fixing the test itself is too difficult for now, can you at least 
> mark the test with a skippable restriction and exit with exit code 77 
> when apt installation fails? Mind you, because of the current 
> behavior, your autopkgtest will never block a package that makes your 
> package regress, as the reference is already failing.

Thanks for reporting,

The very purpose of the autopkgtest is indeed to test install routines.

I am fixing this issue now, and similar issues related to changes 
Firefox locale packages.


 - Jonas

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