autopkgtest does not skip debian/tests/control stanzas with unknown fields

[Scott Moser]

doc/README.package-tests.rst says:
 | Control fields
 | --------------
 | The fields which may appear in debian/tests/control stanzas are:
...
 | Any unknown fields will cause the whole stanza to be skipped.

It wasn't clear how I could comment out a test. But the above seemed like one solution. So I tried to effectively stop a test from running until bug 1422681 in systemd/debian/control/tests by adding
  Disabled-until-bug-fixed: http://pad.lv/1422681
to the stanza of the test I wanted to skip.

That didn't seem to work though, the test still ran. See ubuntu test run at [2].

Its possible that I just misunderstood the doc. but it would be nice to clarify that, and if there *is* a way to add comments (and thus comment out the tes), then that'd be nice to document too.

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[1] https://launchpadlibrarian.net/200652701/systemd_219-4ubuntu6_219-4ubuntu7.diff.gz
[2] https://jenkins.qa.ubuntu.com/job/vivid-adt-systemd/125/ARCH=amd64,label=adt/consoleFull

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
Package: autopkgtest 3.12
ProcVersionSignature: User Name 3.19.0-9.9-generic 3.19.1
Uname: Linux 3.19.0-9-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.16.2-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Mar 20 12:50:11 2015
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=screen
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: autopkgtest
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

For the record, you can just comment out stanzas with "#" as usual. I'll document this and also fix the "unknown fields will cause the whole stanza to be skipped" behaviour.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/autopkgtest/autopkgtest.git/commit/?id=a1b05fb6

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package autopkgtest - 3.12.1

---------------
autopkgtest (3.12.1) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Didier Roche ]
  * setup-commands/ubuntu-touch-session: Use "upstart" instead of "init".
    (LP: #1422681)

  [ Martin Pitt ]
  * adt-build-lxc: When removing the old root file system, remove btrfs
    subvolumes in it.
  * README.package-tests.rst: Document that '#' can be used for comments.
    (Part of LP #1434543)
  * Ignore debian/tests/control stanzas with unknown fields, as documented.
    (LP: #1434543)
  * adt-buildvm-ubuntu-cloud: Drop workaround for LP #1428495, it got fixed in
    cloud-init a while ago.
  * adt-buildvm-ubuntu-cloud: Fix cloud-init's prerm hacking to apply after
    dist-upgrades.

 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Tue, 07 Apr 2015 07:26:27 +0200