[Bug 1825448] Re: gnupg2 autopkgtest 'simple-tests' should be included in x/b/c

[Dan Streetman]

> please could you assess this against the concerns raised in the thread
here

Please correct me if I'm mischaracterizing your argument, but basically
you are saying that this update will cause all users to perform a deb
download that has no impact on the code they are running.

I'm afraid I don't see the merit of your argument at all, if it is in
fact simply about additional end-user downloads.  Unless I'm
misunderstanding it, that has no impact at all to end-users besides
download bandwidth and time; end-users will not have to spend any
additional time actually doing anything because of this update.

Compare that to what sru uploaders (and sru approvers) must do each time
this package's autopkgtests fail - it wastes extremely valuable time
looking at autopkgtest failures, figuring out why they failed, finding
this bug (if they don't already know about it) and justifying why the
autopkgtest regression should be ignored.

Alternately, this test could be hinted to completely ignore it for all
reverse-depends autopkgtest runs, but IMO that's even worse - you're
intentionally preventing the reverse-depends autopkgtest run from
actually doing its job, of making sure that other package changes don't
cause regressions in this package.

Can you explain in more detail why you believe it's better to leave
broken autopkgtests broken?

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Title:
  gnupg2 autopkgtest 'simple-tests' should be included in x/b/c

Status in gnupg package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in gnupg2 package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in gnupg source package in Xenial:
  In Progress
Status in gnupg2 source package in Xenial:
  In Progress
Status in gnupg2 source package in Bionic:
  In Progress
Status in gnupg2 source package in Cosmic:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  [impact]

  b/c currently only have gpgv-win32 test, which is limited in what it
  tests and what archs it runs on.  additionally, it always fails (see
  bug 1825186).

  x currently has no tests at all for gnupg or gnupg2.

  [test case]

  run autopkgtests for gnupg2 on b/c.

  [regession potential]

  adding a testcase may result in the testcase incorrectly failing in
  the future.

  [other info]

  this test case is cherry-picked from gnupg2 in disco.

  the test case required slight modification for gnupg v1, as 'Key-Type:
  default' only works with v2.  Note that Xenial is the last release
  that carries gnupg v1; Bionic and later carry only gnupg v2.

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