Bug#978684: autopkgtest should test the installed package

Roger Shimizu rosh at debian.org
Thu Dec 31 16:00:37 GMT 2020


> As pointed in the see autopkgtest specification [1] linked from the
> release team documentation [2] “the tests must test the *installed*
> version of the package”. The autopkgtest from this package only uses the
> source package, and as such violates the specification. Displaying it as
> an example in the wiki [3] may not be advisable.

Thanks for spotting this!
I edited the wiki to add this is a bad example for autopkgtest.
And I'm going to remove the debian/tests folder on the next upload.

Cheers,
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Roger Shimizu, GMT +9 Tokyo
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