Bug#813307: pkg-perl-autopkgtest: smoke needs a smoke-cleanup complement to smoke-setup

[Christopher Hoskin]

Package: pkg-perl-autopkgtest
Version: 0.27
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,

As a last resort, a packager can include a debian/tests/pkg-perl/smoke-setup script to perform any necessary setup before tests are run. However, there is no equivalent 'smoke-cleanup' script to tidyup after tests have completed. For example, if smoke-setup starts a service, one would expect smoke-cleanup to stop it.

Please see [0] for an example of a package where this would be useful.


[0] https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-perl/packages/libmemcached-libmemcached-perl.git/tree/debian/tests/pkg-perl

Thank you.

Christopher Hoskin

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.3
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages pkg-perl-autopkgtest depends on:
ii  perl  5.20.2-3+deb8u3

pkg-perl-autopkgtest recommends no packages.

pkg-perl-autopkgtest suggests no packages.

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