Bug#792418: Wrong "illegal-runtime-test-name" for comma separated Tests: in debian/tests/control

[Axel Beckert]

Control: tag -1 + pending

Hi Martin

Martin Pitt wrote:
> Niels Thykier [2015-07-15  7:20 +0200]:
> > If you are planning on using "comma" as the canonical separator, please
> > consider also updating the examples in your documentation.  E.g. your
> > [1] still says:
> > 
> > """
> > The source package provides a test metadata file debian/tests/control.
> > This is a file containing zero or more RFC822-style stanzas, along these
> > lines:
> > 
> > Tests: fred bill bongo
> > Restrictions: needs-root breaks-testbed
> > """
> 
> Thanks for pointing out! Fixed in git now:
> 
>   http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/autopkgtest/autopkgtest.git/commit/?id=5521c

Fixed in lintian's git now, too:

https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/lintian/lintian.git/commit/?id=98c2644e

> > On a related note, do you want us to recommend users to use comma
> > instead of whitespace (by warning about a pure whitespace separator)?
> 
> Using whitespace only is still legitimate syntax and I don't want to
> break that for the time being due to backwards compat. Likewise I
> wouldn't want to introduce potentially hundreds of lintian warnings
> just for that yet. So a lintian warning seems to be too strong to me,
> at least for the time being.

Please file a separate bug report against lintian once
whitespace-only as delimiter gets deprecated.

		Regards, Axel
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