install_initd tests: new issues
"Wichmann, Mats D" <[email protected]>
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Running the latest version of the tests on Debian turned up two failures that on reflection I think are a hole in the test strategy, not an implementation bug. I made some changes to the reporting to help track this down more easily, thus the recent checkins. I may still be interpreting this wrong, perhaps there are real bugs that can also be explained away by this logic. However... The two fails are in general.sh: - tp3 install_initd A without previously install_initd B suceeds (which is a FAIL) - tp4 remove_initd B after install_initd B fails (which is a FAIL) I believe the reason is that Debian computes dependencies with the aid of a cache in /var/lib/lsb, so it doesn't have to recompute the information every time. Because tp2 runs before tp3 in the normal case, and because tp2 activated both initscripts, this system thinks they're activated. the test "cleanup" code is just to remove the symlinks, but not actually calling remove_initd means the system is going to think they're still active. thus tp3 is going to think the required dependency is met. There's nothing in the spec to say this is not a valid implementation - it clearly is. I think the testsuite cleanup routine is going to have to call remove_initd, perhaps in addition to manually wiping out the files. For the second situation the fail is explainable the same way: from tp3, A is still considered installed (the install succeeded unexpectedly (to the test)), thus removing B can't work because A depends on it and is still installed.