Bug#875914: autopkgtest: support Conflicts: in debian/tests/control

On Thu, 22 Mar 2018 23:21:22 + Daniel Kahn Gillmor 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

Bug#875914: autopkgtest: support Conflicts: in debian/tests/control

Hi Martin and Paul-- 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

Bug#875914: autopkgtest: support Conflicts: in debian/tests/control

Hello Paul, Paul Gevers [2018-03-22 21:42 +0100]: > Others may have more knowledge on this, but I don't think autopkgtest > has the knowledge of the installed packages in the testbed. At least I > think not until it actually starts up the testbed and asks. Right, it does that. But that already

Bug#875914: autopkgtest: support Conflicts: in debian/tests/control

Hello Daniel, Daniel Kahn Gillmor [2018-03-21 10:12 +]: > afaict, the autopkgtest spec doesn't say that all > implementations/backends will start from a minimal environment. This is by intent, as it should not conceptually be limited to the standardized minimal testbeds, for several reasons:

Bug#875914: autopkgtest: support Conflicts: in debian/tests/control

Control: tags -1 -moreinfo Hi Daniel, On 21-03-18 11:12, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > afaict, the autopkgtest spec doesn't say that all > implementations/backends will start from a minimal environment. And > some users want to run autopkgtest locally in some schroot that might > have other

Bug#875914: autopkgtest: support Conflicts: in debian/tests/control

On Tue 2018-03-20 22:42:42 +0100, Paul Gevers wrote: > Control: tags -1 moreinfo > > Hi Daniel, > > On Fri, 15 Sep 2017 17:16:15 -0400 Daniel Kahn Gillmor > wrote: >> It would be nice if we could have Conflicts: in any stanza in >> debian/tests/control, to indicate that if

Bug#875914: autopkgtest: support Conflicts: in debian/tests/control

Control: tags -1 moreinfo Hi Daniel, On Fri, 15 Sep 2017 17:16:15 -0400 Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > It would be nice if we could have Conflicts: in any stanza in > debian/tests/control, to indicate that if a given package is installed, > this test should not be

Bug#875914: autopkgtest: support Conflicts: in debian/tests/control

Package: autopkgtest Severity: wishlist It would be nice if we could have Conflicts: in any stanza in debian/tests/control, to indicate that if a given package is installed, this test should not be considered a candidate to run. Thanks for autopkgtest, it has helped me improve software both