[Python-apps-team] Bug#735578: mercurial: autopkgtest testsuite fails on stderr, hgsubversion requires network access

[Javi Merino]

On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 05:19:16PM +0100, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Package: mercurial
> Version: 2.8.1-2
> User: autopkgtest-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org
> Usertags: autopkgtest
> 
> Hello,

Hi Martin,

> mercurial's autopkgtest currently fails [1] in two different ways:
> 
>  * testsuite:
> 
>    | adt-run: & dsc0t-testsuite:  - - - - - - - - - - stderr - - - - - - - - - -
>    | warning: Tested with unexpected mercurial lib: /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/mercurial
>    |         (expected /usr/bin/mercurial)
> 
>    autopkgtests must not write anything to stderr by default, so that
>    unexpected warnings etc. are caught. If this is expected and cannot
>    easily be suppressed, then you can add "Restrictions: allow-stderr"
>    to its control stanza, as in attached debdiff.

Applied, will be in mercurial-2.9-1.  Thanks!

>  * hgsubversion:
> 
>    In Ubuntu's CI machinery we don't have access to outside servers
>    like alioth. This of course does not directly affect Debian, I
>    mostly mentioned it to explain why I disabled that particular test
>    in Ubuntu in case you wonder.
> 
>    Would you accept a patch that sets up a local svn repository with
>    some example commits and then imports from that? This makes the
>    test independent of network, connectivity, or alioth problems, and
>    as autopkgtest is primarily meant to be a "do I have everything
>    required in the package" smoketest, it should suffice.

I'd definitely accept it.  I don't really like the current test for
hgsubversion, it's just the best I could come up with.

Cheers,
Javi
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