[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#976100: Bug#976100: the autopkg test doesn't have any test dependencies

[Matthias Klose]

On 11/30/20 7:23 AM, Graham Inggs wrote:
> Control: severity -1 normal
> Control: tags -1 + moreinfo
> 
> Hi Matthias
> 
> On Sun, 29 Nov 2020 at 20:18, Matthias Klose <doko at debian.org> wrote:
>> the autopkg test doesn't have any test dependencies
> 
> I don't see a problem here.
> 
>> shouldn't that add the build dependencies, which at least includes the test
>> dependencies as well?
> 
> According to the autopkgtest documentation [1]:
> 
>     If no Depends field is present, ``Depends: @`` is assumed. Note that
>     the source tree's Build-Dependencies are *not* necessarily
>     installed, and if you specify any Depends, no binary packages from
>     the source are installed unless explicitly requested.

debian/control explicitly lists some test dependencies. why aren't those needed
as dependencies for the autopkg tests?

I disagree with the current severity.