Bug#982871: lintian-brush: Should not set "Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-perl" if debian/tests/control is present

[gregor herrmann]

On Mon, 15 Feb 2021 20:29:51 +0100, Axel Beckert wrote:

> Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> > > So please stop adding "Testsuite:" headers if debian/tests/control is
> > > already present.
> > > 
> > > Luckily the testsuite declared in debian/tests/control was still run, so
> > > it didn't completely break autopkgtest for this package, but at least
> > > caused unnecessary tests being tried to run, but then skipped.
> > Thanks for the bug report.
> > 
> > It looks like this is also a bug in lintian, since it reports
> > team/pkg-perl/testsuite/no-team-tests for equivs:
> > 
> > https://lintian.debian.org/tags/team/pkg-perl/testsuite/no-team-tests.html
> 
> Hmmm, I have recently worked on debsums (similar case of a native
> pkg-perl-team package which also has a debian/tests/control file) and
> I can't remember having seen that warning. Then again I had the
> feeling that the lintian tags on the web are often outdated.
> 
> Just checked: Yeah, it's overridden there. (Overridden by myself in
> 2015. :-)

Heh :)

I think that's a know, hm, behaviour lintian. I thought there even
was a bug report about it but I can't find it right now.
 
> Will file a bug report against lintian, too. Thanks for these hints!

Cool, thanks.


Cheers,
gregor

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