Running autopkgtests from PPA on real infrastructure

[Lukas Märdian]

Hello all,

I'm currently working on a problem where an autopkgtest works fine in local
autopkgtest testrunners (QEMU based), but it fails in different ways on the
real Ubuntu autopkgtest infrastructure [0] (networking related issues).

Some developers use Bileto [1] to reproduce tests in such situations. But
not everybody has access to Bileto and it comes with bigger overhead, due
to running all reverse-depends tests as well.

I found out about another way of running autopkgtests on the real
infrastructure, using a PPA. The approach is documented in the wiki [2],
but lots of people seemed to be surprised about it, so this is a heads up
that this approach exists and works!

Basically:
* Upload your package (incl. debian/tests/*) to your PPA
* Get a core-dev/MOTU to trigger the test for you, via this URL scheme:
https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/request.cgi?release=RELEASE&arch=ARCH&package=SRCPKG
*&ppa=LPUSER/PPA*&trigger=SRCPKG/VERSION
* Check the results via this URL scheme:
https://objectstorage.prodstack4-5.canonical.com/v1/AUTH_77e2ada1e7a84929a74ba3b87153c0ac/autopkgtest-RELEASE-LPUSER-PPA/

Best,
   Lukas

[0] https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/
[1] https://bileto.ubuntu.com/
[2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ProposedMigration#Testing_against_a_PPA
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