Hi Stuart,
> > Ah, this was the bit I was missing in my head. ie. not a Build-Depends :)
>
> both, actually. diffoscope FTBFS in buster
[..]
I'll leave these to Mattia has he has been playing about in this area
recently.
> You'd set that environment variable in d/rules and d/tests/* (and so could
> other distros who want to test that packages are working)
Sure of course one would take this approach, but just out of curiousity
whether there is a 100% reliable one set by ci.debian.net?
> > (One difficulty with "just" extending @tool_required is that sometimes
> > we really do want to skip the tests as they require a newer/older
> > version of a particular tool in order that we can correctly match up
> > the output.)
>
> If the newer/older version doesn't work, surely the test should fail?
work != differ. If it *fails*, sure (and we handle/fix those), but
ironically don't guarantee that the output of diffoscope will be reproducible
across (invented example here) ImageMagick 5.1 and 5.2.
Regards,
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