[Merge] lp:~canonical-platform-qa/britney/tests into lp:britney

[Martin Pitt]

Martin Pitt has proposed merging lp:~canonical-platform-qa/britney/tests into lp:britney.

Requested reviews:
  Ubuntu Package Archive Administrators (ubuntu-archive)

For more details, see:
https://code.launchpad.net/~canonical-platform-qa/britney/tests/+merge/207980

Add tests and reproduce some important bugs

This reproduces two bugs which we've recently encountered, and an additional
one which came up when writing the tests:

 * If a new source builds an existing binary, britney ignores all autopkgtests.
   This is what caused the "break trusty" disaster when uploading gccgo-4.9
   which built an empty/broken libgcc1.

 * Britney requests autopkgtest runs for uninstallable packages, causing
   needless test failures and manual intervention to re-try packages once they
   become installable again.

 * Britney does not cross-check the version number that a test was run with,
   and just applies the test result to the currently pending version. This
   hasn't demonstrably caused any ill effect in practice as adt-britney should
   already ensure that the requested version was tested. It might be a good
   idea to verify this anyway though, for robustness.

Simply run the tests with "tests/autopkgtest.py" after checking out the tree,
building lib, and creating the britneymodule.so -> lib/britneymodule.so link.
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