On Fri, Oct 03, 2014 at 11:52:30AM -0300, Antonio Terceiro wrote: > autodep8 (waiting in NEW) already does this; we are still missing the > counterpart in autopkgtest. I'm not sure if it is worth to adapt > autopkgtest to also do that, to then when autodep8 gets in the archive > change autopkgtest again to remove all heuristics and call autodep8 > instead.
I see. Glad to hear it's packaged. It's fine by me to wait, it's a corner case anyway. > > What's the use case of the heuristics anyway? It seems to me that they > > were largely obsoleted by the autopkgtest-pkg-* implementation? > > They _will_ be obsolete, but only after the thousands of packages that > would be detected by them have the proper value for the Testsuite field. Right, ci.d.n still needs them. Sorry, didn't think that through :) Thanks for your work, -- Niko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]

