Patch to ignore apt-listbugs/apt-listchanges + RFC regarding usage on live systems

[Michael Prokop]

Hi,

I sent this mail to Ian a few weeks ago, since I never got a reply I
thought it might be a good idea to re-send it to the new autopkgtest
mailinglist. :)

,---- [ Quoting my original mail  ]
| [...]
| I'm trying to dig through and understand autopkgtest and just tried
| to play with it. One thing I noticed when running adt-run is that
| apt-listchanges/apt-listbugs might become active while running tests
| because of package installation/upgrade. I'm aware that this won't
| be common for a "real" test bed, but since people might play with
| autopkgtest on a live system (like Grml.org, Debian-Live,...) as I
| did they might run into this issue as well. I've attached a patch
| which seems to address this issue.
|
| BTW: How crazy do you personally consider running  'adt-run *dsc ---
| adt-virt-chroot /' or 'adt-run *dsc --- adt-virt-null' on a live
| system (like Grml.org, Debian-Live,...)? IMHO this might give us a
| known-to-be-working environment that's easy to get up and running
| and to play with without any risk.
|
| If you consider this sane enough I'd try to integrate this within
| Jenkins (a continous integration suite) that I'm using already. This
| might give us a nice solution for running tests on each commit/push.
| I'm already building selected binary packages on each commit/push at
| http://jenkins.grml.org/view/Debian/ - would be nice to get test
| coverage as well, so now I'm looking for a simple solution to get it
| up and running. :)
|
| Thanks for autopkgtest!
`----

regards,
-mika-
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