Debian Bug report logs - #994139
lintian: warning about superficial autopkgtests is counterproductive

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Package: lintian; Maintainer for lintian is Debian Lintian Maintainers <[email protected]>; Source for lintian is src:lintian (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Simon McVittie <[email protected]>

Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2021 18:09:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version lintian/2.105.0

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Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2021 10:01:22 +0100
From: Simon McVittie <[email protected]>
To: Felix Lechner <[email protected]>
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On Sun, 12 Sep 2021 at 16:50:03 -0700, Felix Lechner wrote:
> As a side note, the old tag to which you seem attached took a stance
> against superficial tests.

I think the text of its recommendation to maintainers was written before
the special handling of the "superficial" restriction was implemented
(it was originally named "trivial" and renamed during code review).
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=904979

Before the "superficial" restriction was understood by autopkgtest, debci
and britney, all superficial tests would have necessarily been in the
category that is somewhat unhelpful: tests that do not have meaningful
coverage, but are not marked as such.

    smcv

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