[Merge] lp:~laney/britney/autopkgtest-no-delay-if-never-passed into lp:~ubuntu-release/britney/britney2-ubuntu

[Iain Lane]

Iain Lane has proposed merging lp:~laney/britney/autopkgtest-no-delay-if-never-passed into lp:~ubuntu-release/britney/britney2-ubuntu.

Requested reviews:
  Martin Pitt (pitti)
  Ubuntu Package Archive Administrators (ubuntu-archive)
Related bugs:
  Bug #1501699 in Auto Package Testing: "britney: don't wait for "Always failed" results"
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/auto-package-testing/+bug/1501699

For more details, see:
https://code.launchpad.net/~laney/britney/autopkgtest-no-delay-if-never-passed/+merge/277832

[ resubmitting since git-remote-bzr seems to have broken the diff ]

This is an attempt at fixing bug #1501699.

With this branch, we now take into account the "ever_passed" flag to decide if a test run has passed or not. It has passed if the test is ALWAYSFAILED or RUNNING but has never passed, for all arches.

Many testcases relied on the previous behaviour, so I inserted some 'passing' test results to cause the packages to be held.

There are some delicacies around kernel triggering that I don't fully understand (this is my first venture into britney/autopkgtest) - please check I didn't break anything.
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Your team Ubuntu Package Archive Administrators is requested to review the proposed merge of lp:~laney/britney/autopkgtest-no-delay-if-never-passed into lp:~ubuntu-release/britney/britney2-ubuntu.
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