Use autopkgtests infra for a personal PPA?

[Florent 'Skia' Jacquet]

Le 17/07/2024 à 11:07, Simon Chopin a écrit :
> 
> (disclaimer: the claims below could be wrong, I'm basing this on vague
> memories of my time before being a Core Dev)
> 
> IIRC, things are not that simple: you're subject to the same ACLs as if
> you were running autopkgtests in the archive. In particular, you can
> have upload rights to the PPA but not in the archive, in which case
> your request would be rejected.
> 
> I think there's also a problem if the package doesn't exist in the
> archive or doesn't have autopkgtests there?

I think you're absolutely right there, sorry for the oversight.

For the case where there are no tests results yet, we can force that 
with `run-autopkgtest` on the infra, because if I'm correct, the test is 
only done on the `request.cgi` end-point, when sending test from the web 
URL. But that check is only done for packages in the archive, and 
doesn't apply for PPA (at least according to what I understand of the code).

As for the ACL, what people sometimes do is send us a bunch of URLs to 
click on. I've personally done that in the past, so don't hesitate to 
ping me with a list of link, and I can click on them.