Mattia Rizzolo writes ("Re: Bug#903441: dgit: autopkgtest failures in Ubuntu"):
> On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 06:33:45PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > > Do you think it would be (easily) possible to have the test dir saved to
> > > the artifacts only in case of failures?
> >
> > Yes, but it wouldn't be a good idea in general. And I have a handle
> > on this bug.
>
> why wouldn't it? I believe storing extra info on failure is a sane
> thing to do in general, that has the potential to help out also in
> future failures.
If the test suite breaks completely, the results will be huge. I
think it's necessary to be much more selective.
> > I think I understand a lot more about what's going on now, after
> > reading debchange's source code. It's a bit of a mess, though.
>
> debchange's code is kind of alive, it grew in a somwhat akward
> environment :) (assuming the "mess" refers to dch!)
"mess" refers to both dch itself and my use of it in the dgit test
suite. Software, who'd have it, eh :-) ?
Ian.
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