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As previously announced, Taskotron (project page) will be shut down today. See the announcement and its discussion for more details and some background info.
As a result, certain tests (beginning with “dist.“) will no longer appear for new updates in Bodhi (in Automated Tests tab). Some of those tests (and even new ones) will hopefully come back in the future with the help of Fedora CI.
Thank you to everyone who contributed to Taskotron in the past or found our test reports helpful.
If you submit a new Fedora update into Bodhi, you’ll see an Automated Tests tab on that update page (an example), and one of the test results (once it’s done) will be from rpmlint. If you click on it, you’ll get a full log with rpmlint output.
If you wish to whitelist some errors which are not relevant for your package or are clearly a mistake (like spelling issues, etc), it is now possible. The steps how to do this are described at:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Taskotron/Tasks/dist.rpmlint#Whitelisting_errors
This has been often requested, so hopefully this will help you have the automated tests results all in green, instead of being bothered by invalid errors. If something doesn’t work, and it seems to be our bug in how we execute rpmlint (instead of a bug in rpmlint itself), please file a bug in task-rpmlint or contact us (qa-devel mailing list, #fedora-qa IRC channel on Freenode).
If you are a Fedora packager, you might be interested to know that in Taskotron we replaced the depcheck task with rpmdeplint task. So if there are any dependency issues with the new update you submit to Bodhi, you’ll see that as dist.rpmdeplint failure (in the Automated Tests tab). The failure logs should look very similar to the depcheck ones (basically, the logs contain the errors dnf would spit out if it tried to install that package), so there should be no transitioning effort needed.
If you listen for depcheck results somehow, i.e. in FMN, make sure to update your rules to listen for dist.rpmdeplint instead. We have updated the default filters in FMN, so if you haven’t changed them, you should receive notifications for failures in rpmdeplint (and also upgradepath and abicheck) for submitted updates owned by you.
The reason for this switch is that we wanted to get rid of custom dependency checking (done directly on top of libsolv), and use an existing tool for that instead. That saves us time, we don’t need to study all the pitfalls of dependency resolution, and we benefit from someone else maintaining and developing the tool (that doesn’t mean we won’t send patches if needed). rpmdeplint offered exactly what we were looking for.
We will decommission depcheck task from Taskotron execution in the next few days, if there are no issues. Rpmdeplint results are already being published for all proposed updates.
If you have any questions, please ask in comments or reach us at #fedora-qa freenode irc channel or qa-devel (or test or devel) mailing list.
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