Bug#799487: pkg-perl-autopkgtest: saner configuration file hierarchy

[Niko Tyni]

Package: pkg-perl-autopkgtest
Version: 0.25
Severity: wishlist

There's unfortunately little logic to the naming of the configuration
files. We currently have at least

 debian/tests/pkg-perl/SKIP
 debian/tests/pkg-perl/skip-smoke
 debian/tests/pkg-perl/test-files
 debian/tests/pkg-perl/module-name
 debian/tests/pkg-perl/skip-syntax
 debian/tests/pkg-perl/env-smoke

with more to come (see #799486).

Possibly organizing the files by subtest would be cleaner, maybe
something like

 debian/tests/pkg-perl/SKIP
 debian/tests/pkg-perl/smoke/SKIP
 debian/tests/pkg-perl/smoke/files
 debian/tests/pkg-perl/smoke/env
 debian/tests/pkg-perl/syntax/SKIP

I suppose this would need a transition where the scripts would look in
the old locations for a while, possibly forever. Not sure if the gain
is worth the complications, but filing this at least for future reference.
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org