[Piuparts-devel] skipping tests of problematic packages

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2016-12-21 10:51, Holger Levsen wrote:
> I'm a bit concerned with adding support for ignoring packages which need
> external services, eg I still maintain that gitlab needs to install
> cleanly (=exit 0) even if it cannot connect to a redis server… now I
> fear that there will be requests to add such packages to the to be
> ignored lists…

Packages in main don't qualify for "external services out of our
control". They only qualify for "utterly broken" once on archive.d.o.
With a few exceptions: usrmerge, which is is one-way, and maybe
localepurge, which seems hard to undo without a complete --reinstall.


Andreas