Let autopkgtests be gating for testing migration in Buster: heads-up and brain-dump

[Julien Cristau]

On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 21:20:34 +0100, Paul Gevers wrote:

> I think the logical order to for me to tackle (I mean, create the code)
> this is:
> 0) figure out how to test all of this without breaking the real
> instances (hints more than welcome).
> 1) fix autopkgtest to enable --apt-suite (next to the current --apt-pocket)
> In parallel:
> 2a) getting a testing suite up for debci and extend debci to be aware of
> the additional arguments for autopkgtest
> 2b) let britney generate a list of tests it would like to perform
> 2c) align on the transfer mechanism between britney(1) and debci
> 3) enable debci to swallow the commands from britney
> 4) enable the policy in britney
> 
> Opinions? Other ideas?
> 
Is 2b really necessary?  I'm not sure why we would need that.

Cheers,
Julien