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

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 07:16:03PM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Hello Dominic,
> 
> Dominic Hargreaves [2015-06-15 14:32 +0100]:
> > 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.
> 
> Right, that happens all the time with perl/ruby, as Nico and Antonio
> pointed out. They (should) have a different Testsuite: header in that
> case.
> 
> > So by 'declare tests', I was really talking about having Testsuite:
> > autopkgest in the control file. Sorry if that wasn't clear.
> 
> To be honest I'm confused now. So "Testsuite: autopkgtest" -> there
> should be "local" tests in debian/tests/control.
> "Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-perl" -> autodep8 centralized tests. With
> the new --no-auto-control you can disable the latter.
> 
> But as said, this field doesn't concern adt-run itself at all -- you
> give it a package and it'll run it. It's just a hint to the
> higher-layer CI system which decides which tests to run at a time.
> 
> So what's missing/wrong now?

Something to satisfy my original use case where I simply run adt-run
against all the packages I'm interested in, and only the ones with
'validated' tests actually run. But it's not too much work to inspect
the Testsuite header directly, I suppose, so feel free to consider
this request closed - since it sounds like that goes against the
design of the package. Disabling the autodep8 tests will be useful too!

Thanks!
Dominic.