autopkgtest 2.18 source package in Ubuntu

Changelog

autopkgtest (2.18) unstable; urgency=medium


  Improvements:
  * adt-run: When running from git, show the current SHA and commit summary of
    HEAD.

  Bug fixes:
  * tests: Fix race in cleaning up ChrootRunner mounts.
  * adt-run: If apt-get update fails on publishing built binaries, retry after
    15 seconds.
  * VirtSubproc.cleanup(): Avoid recursion if something in hook_cleanup()
    bombs.
  * Fix --shell to also work with --output-dir. (LP: #1317078)

  Code cleanup:
  * VirtSubproc: Document and cleanup execute*() functions.
  * Some test robustifications, to avoid making too many assumptions about
    debug output.
  * adt-run: Eliminate usage of testbed "execute" command, which is too
    complicated and limiting. Use "print-execute-command" directly instead.
  * Drop "execute" command.
  * adt-run: Unify Testbed.command() and commandr() methods and make them
    stricter.
  * Add prefixes to all temporary directories.
  * Remove autopkgtest-xenlvm. It has been orphaned since ~ 2008, few to no
    current users, and no maintainer. (Closes: #508660, #680122)
  * Simplify build system.
  * Drop concept of "shstring". All runners must provide an auxverb now,
    possibly with a wrapper and quoting by themselves if their implementation
    can only deal with shell commands. This avoids having to tell apart these
    two cases in adt-run, clarifies the documentation, and greatly simplifies
    the code. (Closes: #750544)
  * qemu: Use low-level IO in runcmd.  This avoids all the Python overhead and
    buffering and is less prone to bytes vs. string issues.
  * qemu: Fix text vs. binary confusion in reading and copying /etc/timezone.
  * schroot: Call schroot command with -q, to avoid stderr spew if the schroot
    has "message-verbosity=verbose".
  * Port to Python 3.

 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden>  Thu, 12 Jun 2014 07:48:58 +0200