Bug#788659: autopkgtest: Provide option to not implicitly run undeclared tests

[Niko Tyni]

On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 02:32:28PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 07:30:34AM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote:

> > So to clarify, you want an option to disable autodep8, right? If a
> > source package doesn't have tests and autodep8 does not generate any
> > either, then adt-run will already report "no tests in this package"
> > and exit with 8. With a perl package and --no-autodep8 it would then
> > do the same.
> 
> I thought about 'no autodep8', but the semantics aren't quite correct,
> since a package could declare Testsuite: autopkgtest, but rely on the
> autodep8 behaviour. This is in fact the common case for pkg-perl packages,
> as far as I can tell.

FWIW, the pkg-perl packages explicitly declare 
 Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-perl

Not sure if that makes any difference to the plain Testsuite: autopkgtest
declaration with the current adt-run implementation, but at least it could.
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