Bug#886690: debci: Debci invented tests generate false failure reports

[Antonio Terceiro]

On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 08:29:29AM -0300, Antonio Terceiro wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 10:14:06AM +0000, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On March 15, 2018 10:03:03 AM UTC, Paul Gevers <elbrus at debian.org> wrote:
> > >Control: tags -1 moreinfo
> > >Control: reassign -1 autodep8
> > >Control: retitle -1 autodep8 should maybe ignore transitional packages
> > >
> > >On Mon, 08 Jan 2018 17:43:34 -0500 Scott Kitterman
> > ><debian at kitterman.com> wrote:
> > >> Apparently debci has a global test for python modules where it
> > >attempts to
> > >> import the module based on the package name, i.e.  tries to "import
> > >foo" for
> > >> python-foo or python3-foo.
> > >
> > >It is autodep8 that does that. Reassigning.
> > >
> > >> Please blacklist the source package stepic from this test. 
> > >Python-stepic is
> > >> merely a transitional package.  It's always going to faile.
> > >
> > >I don't see python-stepic anywhere on ci.d.n. Did I mislook, or do you
> > >mean something else?
> > >
> > >Anyways, I updated the title to something that hopefully describes the
> > >issue you raise.
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > The source package is stepic.
> 
> stepic was included in the whilelist who was provided to me by Ondřej
> Nový to bootstrap some python testing with the basic import test that
> was added to autodep8, also by him.
> 
> This whitelist has 800+ packages; I'm more than happy to have the Python
> team owning it; handling requests about individual packages from there
> is going to be tough.
> 
> See whitelists/python.txt in
> https://salsa.debian.org/ci-team/debian-ci-config

anyway I have already removed stepic, and this will go live on the next
deployment that I should do "soon".


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