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[Łukasz Zemczak <1907422@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey Dan! Thank you for your review.

I understand that needrestart as is now has no testing story, which is
quite unfortunate. Do you have some testing scenario that you would
consider as a minimum requirement for the package to get accepted into
main? needrestart is a project which we are not upstream for, meaning
that adding really useful tests would ultimately require help from
upstream. Realistically, the only test I can tinker up before 21.04 is
ready would be a very very simple autopkgtest that would be running the
needrestart command and checking its output. Even then, well, we'd be
introducing a delta against Debian - as I'm not confident that Debian
would be willing to accept something as simple as that.

This is something that has not been tackled since long. Debian has a wishlist bug open for it since 2016:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=810584

Other than that, the source includes no testing as well, it's a very
specific fruitcake. It's unfortunate, as I guess the perl module might
have had some unit testing specified, but adding that without upstream
approval would be weird.

Seeing that it's late in the cycle and so far the regression history of
the package is rather low, could we settle on us reaching out both
upstream and to Debian regarding test-story improvements and in the
meantime accepting the package into main as is? Or, if that's in any way
helpful, additionally creating such an 'easy' sanity-test autopkgtest (+
sending it to Debian to get rid of the delta)?

Cheers!

** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #810584
   https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=810584

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