force-autopkgtest semantics
Colin Watson
cjwatson at ubuntu.com
Thu Jun 27 07:18:31 UTC 2013
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 05:58:11PM -0600, Adam Conrad wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 07:48:10PM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> > Would it be possible to support force-autopkgtest on either the package under
> > test or the triggering package. Then, for today's case, we could have done:
> >
> > force-autopkgtest kde-baseapps/4:4.10.80-0ubuntu1
> >
> > That would then skip all autopkgtests that might be triggered by the
> > transition.
>
> I would find it pretty confusing if a force-foo had different semantics,
> depending on which package you applied it to. What might be slightly
> more intuitive here would be to break it into the two actual usecases:
>
> force-badtest pango1.0/1.2.3-1 # hints that the test is broken
> force-skiptest kde-baseapps/4.1.2-3 # hints that we don't want to wait
>
> That gives us two clear and defined ways to deal with either "this
> package's tests are busted, but we don't want the world to hang on
> that" and "this package is urgent and we want to skip all the tests
> that were triggered by it".
Makes sense to me. I've implemented that, and renamed the existing
hints to force-badtest.
Thanks,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]
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