[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#920588: Bug#920588: htsjdk: Autopkgtest for htsjdk

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Olivier,

On Sun, Jan 27, 2019 at 10:15:51AM +0100, Olivier Sallou wrote:
> Htsjdk is indeed quite a pain to upgrade, releases frenquently breaks rdepends... And picard tools releases usually match specific version of htsjdk.

Yes, that's actually the reason for my request for a test.
 
> Would be nice to test all rdepends.

Sure.  Since several GSoC projects I'm mentoring students who did a
great job in writing tests for packages in task bio with high popcon
numbers.  Today I realised that we have also important packages in
bio-dev.  For sure we should test rdepends of the development packages.
 
> Though, would should be our strategy if rdepends do not work anymore?

This bug is about the fast migration of htsjdk.  Since we
want to let it migrate only if it does not break any rdepends it could
make perfectly sense to simply call a set of rdepends in this test.

> Or should each htsjdk be a package htsjdk-X, matching each new version... Avoiding breaks, but each rdepends should update their htsjdk version dependency (test if works with latest version or not)

Hmmm, this sounds pretty complex, thought.
 
> Could be discussed at sprint..

We can do this - that's why I filed this bug report and CCed it here.

Kind regards

      Andreas.

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