Yes, we absolutely should. This has been on the wish list for a long time, and about half a year ago Adam and I talked to the Debian dpkg maintainers how to implement this efficiently. I'm linking to the dpkg bug.
In short, the plan is to make dpkg-source add the collection of test dependencies to the .dsc so that they will appear in the archive's Sources.gz. Then we can actually do a query like "what are the reverse test dependencies of package X", which isn't possible right now. ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #779559 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=779559 ** Also affects: dpkg (Debian) via http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=779559 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown ** Changed in: auto-package-testing Importance: Undecided => Medium ** Changed in: auto-package-testing Status: New => Triaged ** Summary changed: - packages can regress undetected because of uploads in test (not build/runtime) dependencies + trigger tests for updated reverse test dependencies ** Also affects: dpkg (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu) Status: New => Triaged ** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Medium -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1491145 Title: trigger tests for updated reverse test dependencies To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/auto-package-testing/+bug/1491145/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
