'force-skiptest' should skip consideration of test results, but not suppress their output on update_excuses
Bug #1557746 reported by
Steve Langasek
This bug affects 1 person
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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britney |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Martin Pitt |
Bug Description
I currently have a skiptest hint in place for php-defaults. update_excuses now shows:
php-defaults (32ubuntu1 to 35ubuntu3)
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
0 days old
Should wait for tests relating to php-defaults 35ubuntu3, but forced by vorlon
Valid candidate
Forcing the package to be considered as a candidate should not suppress the output from the tests; this is still important information even if the results a currently being disregarded.
(For the present instance, I'm only skipping the tests in order to get preliminary update_output results; so I would also really like to know the status of the tests so I can drop the hint again.)
Related branches
Changed in britney: | |
assignee: | nobody → Martin Pitt (pitti) |
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Note that we currently literally skip the tests with such a hint in place, i. e. britney doesn't even request them. This has helped us to actually land some perl or glibc fixes without having to wait for several thousand tests to finish.
php-defaults was actually fairly close to succeeding, there was just one remaining regression.
Anyway, for what you *really* want to do here: I think this sounds like this work item: "britney: produce update_ output_ notest. txt with a dry run ignoring test results, for easier transitions"? (Matthias asked for that on the last sprint too).