Skipping this release for bullseye is not entirely unreasonable with Trixie pending.
Skipping the entire suite feels unreasonable if the Postgres Debian team releases 1.24.
I am working up a patch that will skip only these tests that will likely be accepted upstream as well, should Debian choose to release 1.24 for bullseye.
On Wed, Feb 5, 2025 at 3:10 AM Christoph Berg <cb@df7cb.de> wrote:
Re: Bradford Boyle > I think we could go without tests on bullseye since it seems like we are > nearing the trixie release and bullseye will become old old stable. > (Correct me if I am wrong on this point, I'm making this assumption > based on the trixie freeze dates). There's probably little value in > creating extra work here.
Or we just don't update the package on bullseye, leaving it at 1.23.1. But there is still the autopkgtest, so we still have test coverage there.
> It looks like d/rules for pgbouncer will skip the tests if nocheck is in > DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS -- is this something that can be configured via the Jenkins > YAML? I am not very familiar with the Jenkins job builder YAML and I didn't see > any usages of that in the current set of jobs. Or would I need to update > generate-pgdg-source to include an additional tweak to disable the tests on > older platforms?
Any of these would work.
DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck would have to be set in the sbuild-package script. That's probably the easiest way forward.
The extra test dependencies need annotating with <!nocheck> so the build doesn't try to install them.
