On Thu, 22 Mar 2018 23:21:22 +0000 Daniel Kahn Gillmor <[email protected]> wrote: > thanks for all the clear thinking and detail and nuance explaining the > potential gotchas around implementing my wishlist feature request :) > > I think the caveats y'all have raised are reasonable to think about, and > would be happy with any of the proposed resolutions. This is not a > particularly urgent feature request for me, so if it sits in a > justifiably low-priority queue for a while i won't complain, i just > wanted to document a desired feature and spur discussion about what such > an implementation might need to care about, so that potential future > implementers have a roadmap to work from.
With the skippable restriction added recently, this is even less interesting to implement in autopkgtest itself. Add the skippable restriction, detect if the conflicting package is installed, and exit 77. When bug 905311 gets fixed, using that new restriction may also help. Paul
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