[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#874022: enable autopkgtest to detect breakage when dependencies change

[Jérémy Lal]

2017-09-02 8:42 GMT+02:00 Pirate Praveen <praveen at debian.org>:

> Package: node-iconv
> version: 2.3.0-1
> severity: wishlist
>
> For example this package was broken since nodejs 6 upload since
> nodejs-abi-46 was not installable. An autopkgtest would have helped
> detect it as it is automatically triggered when nodejs package changes.
>
> Note: I can also help implement it but I wanted to confirm with current
> uploaders since an earlier such act was not welcomed.
>

I don't think it's automatically triggered, for there's an ongoing
transition bug #849505 and the transition was held back by a mips64el gcc-7
bug,
then by a test failure of nodejs 6 on mips64el. Double bad luck, as usual.

Jérémy
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