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

[Drew Parsons]

On 2021-08-30 08:56, Graham Inggs wrote:
> 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/


Thanks, I'll file a bug on it in that case  It doesn't need to be used, 
but it is listed as a "defined" restriction in the docs.

Drew