Bug#993214: mpi4py: autopkgtest regression around 2021-08-25

[Graham Inggs]

On Mon, 30 Aug 2021 at 00:22, Drew Parsons <dparsons at debian.org> wrote:
> Graham, when I run autopkgtest, it skips the dummy test, which is what
> we want, but it does so with the message
>
>    SKIP unknown restriction hint-testsuite-triggers
>
>
> "unknown restriction", is this normal?  If so it's a bit misleading
> since the hint is not supposed to be "unknown".

Yes, it seems this is normal.  See a recent autopkgtest log from
apparmor [1], which uses this feature.

My understanding is the hint-testsuite-triggers is not used when the
autopkgtest is run, but rather when dpkg-source generates the
Testsuite-Triggers header in the .dsc file.


[1] https://ci.debian.net/packages/a/apparmor/testing/amd64/