[Bug 1165128] Re: skip tests where a dependency limits architecture

[Martin Pitt]

I committed a change that allows architecture specifiers in the Depends:
field. That shouldn't skip the test though; Build-Depends: and binary
Depends: don't skip the whole package because a single dependency isn't
available, and sometimes you want to do stuff like "Depends: 32bitpkg
[i386], 64bitpkg [amd64]"?

Now the tests can be written to skip themselves if they can't work
without the arch specific dependency, or can just skip that one
particular check which uses them.

** Changed in: autopkgtest (Ubuntu)
       Status: Triaged => Fix Committed

** Summary changed:

- skip tests where a dependency limits architecture
+ support architecture specifiers in Depends:

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Title:
  support architecture specifiers in Depends:

Status in “autopkgtest” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  now that we have armhf in the qa jenkins builds we now get failures due to uninstallable packages.
  See https://jenkins.qa.ubuntu.com/view/Raring/view/AutoPkgTest/job/raring-adt-python-scipy-armhf/
  Here openblas does not install because it does not exist for != x86,ppc

  The most logical way to fix this is to properly support the dpkg dependency syntax as stated in the DEP8 spec. This includes architecture qualifications.
  Then autopkgtest can simply skip the tests where the used architecture is excluded in a dependency.
  Alternatively one could extend the spec to add an Architecture field.

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