[Bug 1513992] [NEW] Please continuously backport autopkgtest (main) from xenial

[Martin Pitt]

Public bug reported:

Please backport autopkgtest 3.17.4 (main) from xenial to trusty and
intermediate releases. I'm actually requesting a permanent approval so
that I can do the backports of future releases without having to re-seek
approval for every version.

Reason for the backport:
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autopkgtes keeps evolving and getting fixes for e. g. newer phone releases, adding support for running in the cloud and on MaaS, etc. Production CI always uses latest autopkgtest git for testing packages for all supported Ubuntu releases. I make sure that the latest package is always backportable to >= precise. The test suite runs during package build, and more tests as autopkgtest (for itself).

Right now developers on trusty or e. g. wily often complain that they
get failures with the old adt-run, and we ask them to download the
latest .deb from the development series and install it with dpkg -i.

Testing:
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* trusty/vivid/wily:
[X] Package builds without modification
[X] autopkgtest installs cleanly and runs

Reverse dependencies:
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The following reverse-dependencies need to be tested against the new version of autopkgtest. For reverse-build-dependencies (-Indep), please test that the package still builds against the new autopkgtest. For reverse-dependencies, please test that the version of the package currently in the release still works with the new autopkgtest installed. Reverse- Recommends, Suggests, and Enhances don't need to be tested, and are listed for completeness-sake.

autopkgtest
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* autopkgtest-xenlvm (built from same source package, but this has never been used/tested and we stopped supporting it for lack of interest)
* python-jsonschema
  [ ] trusty (Reverse-Build-Depends) (not used at all, b-d is wrong)
* packaging-dev
  [ ] trusty (Reverse-Recommends) (meta-package)
* pytest-instafail
  [ ] trusty (Reverse-Build-Depends) (not used at all, b-d is wrong)

** Affects: trusty-backports
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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