Bug#931881: diffoscope: undeclared versioned dependency on file

[Mattia Rizzolo]

mh, no.  I think some logic needs tweaking, as file is definitely present
(it's an hard dependency of diffoscope), and that test should just be
skipped.

On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 11:42 PM Chris Lamb <lamby at debian.org> wrote:

> Steve Langasek wrote:
>
> > At the very least, it seems this should be a versioned test dep on file
> (>=
> > 5.37), but perhaps it should also be a versioned runtime dependency. I
> > haven't looked to see what the impact is of the wrong version of 'file'
> when
> > DIFFOSCOPE_TESTS_FAIL_ON_MISSING_TOOLS is not set.
>
> I think we need to add "file" to the DIFFOSCOPE_TESTS_MISSING_TOOLS
> list in debian/tests/pytest. Mattia, can you confirm?
>
>
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