Your message dated Sat, 21 Mar 2026 22:49:45 +0000
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and subject line Bug#974513: fixed in salt-pepper 0.5.5-2
has caused the Debian Bug report #974513,
regarding salt-pepper: autopkgtest must be marked superficial
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Source: salt-pepper
X-Debbugs-CC: [email protected]
Severity: important
Usertags: superficialtest
Dear Maintainer,
It has been noticed that the autopkgtest in salt-pepper is running a
trivial command that does not provide significant test coverage:
- $py -c "import pepper; print(pepper)" and salt-pepper --help
Executing that command is considered to be a trivial test, which
does not provide significant coverage for a package as a whole.
But these tests are a useful way to detect regressions in dependencies
and prevent them from breaking your package.
However, it is important that we are realistic about the level of
test coverage provided by these commands: most regressions cannot be
detected in this way. So it is not appropriate for packages with only
superficial tests to have the reduced migration time to migrate from
unstable to testing as that means less opportunity for testing by users
compared to the package with no tests.
To support this, the keyword "Restrictions: superficial" has been
defined [1]. Packages where all tests are marked with this keyword are not
considered for the reduced migration age from unstable to testing, and
will not be allowed to migrate automatically in later stages of the
freeze [2].
Its always better to have more extensive testing than having
superficial testing, which again is better than having no test.
Please consider i) Adding a non-trivial test, and/or ii) Mark the
trivial test with "Restrictions: superficial", similar to
[3] or [4].
The Release Team has listed this issue in the list of Release Critical
Issues for bullseye [5] and has mentioned that the test must be marked
superficial if it is not testing one of its own installed binary
packages in some way. As a result, the severity of this bug report might
be increased to serious in future.
[1]
https://salsa.debian.org/ci-team/autopkgtest/-/blob/master/doc/README.package-tests.rst#defined-restrictions
[2] https://release.debian.org/bullseye/freeze_policy.html
[3]
https://salsa.debian.org/utopia-team/dbus/-/commit/a80908df7d119b181eec5eb0542634a30c2ad468
[4]
https://salsa.debian.org/apparmor-team/apparmor/-/commit/580667513a097088ebe579884b38ac8d8666d3b3
[5] https://release.debian.org/bullseye/rc_policy.txt
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Regards
Sudip
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Source: salt-pepper
Source-Version: 0.5.5-2
Done: Andreas Tille <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
salt-pepper, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Andreas Tille <[email protected]> (supplier of updated salt-pepper package)
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Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2026 23:35:41 +0100
Source: salt-pepper
Architecture: source
Version: 0.5.5-2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Salt Team <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Andreas Tille <[email protected]>
Closes: 974513 1087071
Changes:
salt-pepper (0.5.5-2) unstable; urgency=medium
.
* Team upload.
* Migrate package to Salsa
* Mark autopkgtest superficial
Closes: #974513
* d/watch: version=5
* Standards-Version: 4.7.3 (routine-update)
* debhelper-compat 13 (routine-update)
* Remove Priority field to comply with Debian Policy 4.7.3 (routine-
update)
* Build-Depends: s/dh-python/dh-sequence-python3/ (routine-update)
* Replace use of deprecated $ADTTMP with $AUTOPKGTEST_TMP.
* Fix syntax warning with Python3.13
Closes: #1087071
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