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

[Stefano Zacchiroli]

On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 09:50:02AM -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:
> 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.

Also:

1) No matter how precise, grepping for debian/tests/control is a
   heuristic. One can, say, have a test called "control" for a testing
   framework entirely unrelated to autopkgtest. Given that that
   interface is not in Policy (yet) it'd be better to declare explicitly
   that the package is using autopkgtest instead of relying on
   heuristics.

2) Packages/Sources is a pretty popular interface to find package
   metdata, there are several pieces of the Debian infrastructure out
   there that happily live on those alone. Now, if they want to process
   the information "does this package have a autopkgtest suite?",
   forcing them to also acquire Contents seem unneeded, considering
   Packages/Sources is a well-established interface already.

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