[Pkg-zsh-devel] Question about your zsh 5.8-2ubuntu1 upload

[Steve Langasek]

On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 06:23:14PM +0100, Axel Beckert wrote:
> > once I had verified that the changes were sufficient to let the
> > tests pass. It happens that they were not - for some reason that was
> > not reproducible to me locally. So I've uploaded a subsequent change
> > to mark zsh-doc Multi-Arch: foreign, and that should be enough now to
> > let the tests pass.

> Can I see those test results somewhere? Couldn't find them on
> https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/packages/zsh/focal/amd64 — even 5.8-2
> passed the tests there.

https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/package/zsh/focal/i386

The only arch we do cross-testing for is i386, because this is now a partial
arch in Ubuntu.

> > Regarding the libpcre3 change: the run-testsuite test includes upstream
> > tests that fail if libpcre3 is not available, but the test does not declare
> > a dependency on libpcre3.  You mention build-depends, but this test does not
> > declare a test dependency on the build-depends either.
> 
> Ah, I remembered it wrong: @ just includes the runtime dependencies,
> not the build-dependencies.
> 
> > I would have preferred to use Restriction: needs-recommends instead of
> > hard-coding a test dep on libpcre3 (which otherwise does not appear
> > hardcoded in the control files), but I found in the autopkgtest
> > documentation that the maintainers wish to consider this restriction
> > deprecated due to bug #896698 and referencing
> > <https://lists.debian.org/debian-ci/2018/06/msg00016.html>.
> 
> Indeed. Heard of that one too at the Debian Snow Camp.
> 
> > It's possible a test-dep on libpcre3-dev would be better, since this matches
> > debian/control.
> 
> I'd probably use @builddep@ for now. Because this would pull in all
> other Recommends (i.e. also libgdbm6 and libncursesw6) via their -dev
> packages, too, I assume you wouldn't mind that deviation from your
> ubuntu2 patch when merging it.

Yes, that would be fine with me.

Thanks!

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