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

[Graham Inggs]

On Mon, 30 Nov 2020 at 09:55, Matthias Klose <doko at debian.org> wrote:
> debian/control explicitly lists some test dependencies. why aren't those needed
> as dependencies for the autopkg tests?

I'm not familiar with this package, but comparing a build log [1],
with a test log [2] shows a completely different set of tests being
run.

> I disagree with the current severity.

Apart from the installability problem with python3-joblib (#954403) in
unstable, circlator has a good autopkgtest history in testing [3].


[1] https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=circlator&arch=amd64&ver=1.5.6-1&stamp=1564579872&raw=0
[2] https://ci.debian.net/data/autopkgtest/testing/amd64/c/circlator/8460196/log.gz
[3] https://ci.debian.net/packages/c/circlator/testing/amd64/