[Bug 1491145] Re: trigger tests for updated reverse test dependencies

[Martin Pitt]

For the record, summary/decision from the Debian bug report: dpkg-source
-b adds a new field

  Testsuite-Triggers: foo, bar, baz

from the union of all testsuites test depends, minus @ and @builddeps@,
without versions, and with alternatives split (i.e. a simple comma
separated package list). If the field is present then it overrides the
automatically extracted value.


** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu)
       Status: Triaged => In Progress

** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Martin Pitt (pitti)

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Title:
  trigger tests for updated reverse test dependencies

Status in Auto Package Testing:
  Triaged
Status in dpkg package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in dpkg package in Debian:
  New

Bug description:
  Tracking down the cause of the php5 stalls, I found that the
  regression in the php-codecoverage tests was caused not by a
  regression in php5, which it blocks, but in xdebug, which it did *not*
  block.

  This is because xdebug is a test dependency of php-codecoverage but
  not a build or runtime dependency of it.  As a result, xdebug was
  allowed to regress the state of php-codecoverage's tests in the
  release pocket, undetected.

  Should we trigger tests for test dependencies as well?

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