[elbrus at debian.org: bits from the ci.debian.net maintainers]

[Iain Lane]

Ubuntu developers might be interested in this, which I just merged to 
the branch of autopkgtest we're using on autopkgtest.ubuntu.com[0]:

----- Forwarded message from Paul Gevers <elbrus at debian.org> -----

> Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2020 18:52:58 +0100
> From: Paul Gevers <elbrus at debian.org>
> To: Debian Devel Announce <debian-devel-announce at lists.debian.org>
> Subject: bits from the ci.debian.net maintainers
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> Dear all,
> 
> With the recent upload of autopkgtest 5.15, which is available in
> unstable and testing, maintainers have the ability to declare on which
> architecture(s) their autopkgtests are supposed to be run [1]. This
> can be done in either explicitly listing supported architectures, or
> by explicitly listing unsupported architectures. The normal
> dpkg-architecture wildcards apply. As an example, src:lxc already made
> the change in commit [2].
> 
> The reason why this feature has been added is that the testing
> migration software that is run by the Release Team is now taking test
> results into account from four architectures: amd64, arm64, armhf and
> i386. And more architectures to be added soon hopefully.
> 
> Of course it's best that your autopkgtest is supported on all
> architectures, but if that isn't feasible, too much work, or doesn't
> work e.g. because of non-installability of test dependencies [3],
> consider using this new field.
> 
> Paul Gevers
> Member of the debian-ci team
> Member of the Release Team
> 
> [1]
> https://salsa.debian.org/ci-team/autopkgtest/-/blob/master/doc/README.package-tests.rst#L178-187
> [2]
> https://salsa.debian.org/lxc-team/lxc/-/commit/18904a14a91cf3bd705d4a9c62cc64e8dd464df3
> [3] We think it's better to use this new field instead of the
> skip-not-installable restriction if the problem is architecture
> specific, as skip-not-installable will hide genuine problems with
> installability.  Regular package dependencies are already checked by
> the migration software so shouldn't be an issue.
> 

----- End forwarded message -----

[0] 
https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-release/autopkgtest/+git/development

-- 
Iain Lane                                  [ iain at orangesquash.org.uk ]
Debian Developer                                   [ laney at debian.org ]
Ubuntu Developer                                   [ laney at ubuntu.com ]
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