[Pkg-iscsi-maintainers] Bug#710148: open-iscsi autopkgtests

[Christian Seiler]

Control: merge 710148 710261
Control: tags -1 + confirmed

This patch adds ca. 1kLOC of generic python code to the open-iscsi
package for testing (testlib.py). The same code has been added to 3
other packages already just as a carbon-copy. I think it would be far
better to add testlib.py to the autopkgtest package, to make it
available for all kinds of packages. I've already asked the autopkgtest
maintainers and have received positive feedback, so I'm going to take
care of that and provide a patch against autopkgtest. After that is in
the archive, I'm going to merge a modified version of this patch (some
smaller improvements, using the testlib.py from autopkgtest) to add
autopkgtest integration for open-iscsi.

Secondly, in order to test the initiator functionality proper, one needs
an iSCSI target (and has to specify that manually for the test to work)
- I'm currently at DebConf15 and have talked with Martin Pitt about that
topic, and we are thinking about devising a scheme for autopkgtest to be
able to provision multiple virtual machines for a single test, so one
could be used as the iSCSI target while the first tests the initiator.
(We are going to discuss this in detail later during the week.) That
will be a much more long-term goal, just wanted to mention this here.

I'm merging both bugs that were opened with the same contents.

Christian

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