[pkg-gnupg-maint] gnupg2 autopkgtest uses multi-arch which seems fragile

Ian Jackson ijackson at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Mon Jul 9 14:02:38 BST 2018


Ian Jackson writes ("Re: gnupg2 autopkgtest uses multi-arch which seems fragile"):
> I looked in:
> 
> * debian/tests/control in the gnupg2 source tree.
>   One test, of gpgv-win32.  Depends on gpgv-win32, gnupg2,

I have found it:

debian/tests/gpgv-win32 manually installs wine32 using apt.

This seems quite wrong.  If a package needs to be installed, it should
be handled via Depends in debian/tests/control.  Otherwise all of the
machinery to select which packages are being tested is utterly
defeated.

Ian.



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