Bug#969753: diffoscope: autopkgtest failures

Chris Lamb lamby at debian.org
Tue Sep 8 12:49:15 BST 2020


Hi Gianfranco,

> Hello, autopkgtests looks sad, pytest-with-recommends works, while
> pytest doesn't, because of missing pgpdump
>
> I did add some @skip_unless_tools_exist("pgpdump") around the failing
> tests (attached the diff), however I don't know
> if this is the right solution, or something better has to be
> implemented.

Thanks. Adding the decorator in test_pgp.py looks fine at a first
glance, but needing PGP support to diff two directories (!) is a
symptom of a deeper problem with pgpdump integration.

Will investigate.


Regards,

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