[PATCH 2/3] adt-run: add --upgrade-to option for upgrade tests

[Martin Pitt]

Martin Pitt [2014-06-28 16:26 +0200]:
> Conceptually this is still a bit weird, as the codification of what
> the entire test is supposed to do is split between the control files
> and test scripts (where they really belong) and command line options
> (which might be forgotten, or specified unexpectedly, etc.). I think
> I'd rather see a semantics where the upgrade is triggered by a flag in
> the test control, and the command line option merely specifies the
> target release (with a sensible default such as "current development
> series").

This is inconsistent with what I replied to your first mail, so please
forget the above.

So most "regular" autopkgtests should be applicable and appropriate
after a dist-upgrade as well, so for most packages there's nothing
needed beyond a --upgrade-to option.

For some special cases there might be tests which are only applicable
to upgrades, and they should have a "Restrictions: upgrade" or similar
to only run if --upgrade-to is specified; or perhaps conversely,
"Restrictions: no-upgrade" for tests which are known to not work in
the next distro series (although this is weird, and I'd rather avoid
it; the test can still exit early if it detects an incompatible
release).

So we can keep the above on the shelf if there are good reasons why we
shouldn't just run the normal package tests after upgrade and we need
a parallel set of tests.

Thanks,

Martin

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