Bug#811191: [regression] lapack 3.6.0 fails the testsuite

[Matthias Klose]

On 16.01.2016 19:31, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
> Le samedi 16 janvier 2016 à 19:24 +0100, Matthias Klose a écrit :
>> On 16.01.2016 18:00, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
>>> I was aware of the failure but decided to nevertheless add  that
>>   > testsuite as an autopkgtest, in order to make the test failures
>> more visible.
>>
>> I'll never understand why people do that ... once Debian adds
>> succeeding autopkg
>> tests as a requirement for migration to testing your're screwed.
>
> Well, if the testsuite still fails by that time, I'll remove the test…
> No big deal.

other distros (e.g. Ubuntu) already use that.

>> You really should mark these as XFAIL (expected to fail) and still
>> succeed the test.
>
> I agree that marking it as XFAIL would be the best thing to do, but
> autopkgtest does not provide such a feature (or am I missing
> something?).

test frameworks should provide that, or else you are on your own adding a wrapper.