[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#824935: sbuild: better support for running autopkgtests

[Sean Whitton]

Package: sbuild
Version: 0.69.0-2
Severity: wishlist

Dear maintainer,

It is possible to run autopkgtests by invoking adt-run as an sbuild
post-build-command, as described on the wiki.[1]  However, it would be
better if sbuild could be configured to invoke adt-run as an independent
stage of the build, like the stages for lintian and piuparts.  This
would have the following advantages:

1. If the test suite fails, this would be reported in the final output
   as "autopkgtest: fail".  At present a failure in the test suite
   counts as a failure for the whole build since a failure in a
   post-build-command is considered to be a failure of the build.

2. adt-run dies with exit code 8 if a package does not have any DEP-8
   tests defined.  In a post-build command this counts as a failure, but
   for sbuild's purposes it should not count as a failure of the build
   that a package doesn't have any tests.  This can be worked around
   using wrapper scripts etc. in the post-build-command, but the user
   shouldn't have to worry about this.

3. There could be built-in support for autodep8, if needed (maybe
   adt-run handles this; I'm not sure).

Thanks.

[1] https://wiki.debian.org/sbuild#Using_autopkgtest

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 4.5.0-2-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages sbuild depends on:
ii  adduser         3.114
ii  apt-utils       1.2.11
ii  libsbuild-perl  0.69.0-2
ii  perl            5.22.2-1

Versions of packages sbuild recommends:
ii  debootstrap  1.0.81
ii  fakeroot     1.20.2-1

Versions of packages sbuild suggests:
pn  deborphan  <none>
ii  wget       1.17.1-1+b1

-- no debconf information

-- 
Sean Whitton
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