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

Antonio Terceiro terceiro at debian.org
Thu Mar 15 11:29:29 UTC 2018


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
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