[Piuparts-devel] upgrade tests with no version in upgraded distro

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2013-05-31 14:24, Holger Levsen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> some upgrade tests are done, when there is no version in the upgraded distro, 
> eg. http://piuparts.debian.org/wheezy2jessie/pass/uim-qt3_None.log which 
> exists in wheezy, but not in jessie.
> 
> As a sympton, running adequate on the non installed package failed.

I thought I had fixed this ...

> But, I dont think piuparts should test these packages at all:

I think these are very important tests.
Package X exists in $release. No longer in $release+1. What happens if
we upgrade from $release to $release+1?
Oh, someone again forgot to add appropriate Conflicts/Breaks/Replaces ...
Of course in that case we should not run some tests that expect the
package to be installed :-)

> http://piuparts.debian.org/wheezy2jessie/inadequate_exit_issue.html
> http://piuparts.debian.org/testing2sid/inadequate_exit_issue.html
> http://piuparts.debian.org/squeeze2wheezy/inadequate_exit_issue.html


Andreas