[Python-modules-team] Bug#685509: Bug#685509: Bug#685508: Please add "XS-Testsuite: autopkgtest" header in debian/control

[Yaroslav Halchenko]

On Tue, 21 Aug 2012, Jakub Wilk wrote:

> Control: tag -1 + wontfix

> * Dmitry Shachnev <mitya57 at gmail.com>, 2012-08-21, 17:10:
> >>To allow test execution environments to discover packages which
> >>provide tests, their source packages should have a `Testsuite:`
> >>header containing `autopkgtest` (which is currently the only
> >>defined value). Multiple values get comma separated, as usual in
> >>control files.

> There are better ways to discover which packages provide tests:
> http://lists.debian.org/20120413215537.GA1712@jwilk.net

FWIW -- possibly more convenient user-land construct might be

  apt-file search -a source 'debian/tests/control'

But there is somewhat a problem with all the grepping approaches is when
dealing with multiple APT repositories. Source header field  indeed could
have helped to locate the packages with tests regardless of their origin.

> I'm not going to pollute my .dsc with this metadata.

my 0.1 cent: IMHO immediate use for "Testsuite:" would become more
adequate if multiple formal ways to run testsuites becomes available.

But either should it be added manually ATM -- as DEP-8 suggests, that field
might be added automagically in the future by dpkg-source... it might be the
cleanest long-term solution.

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