Test depends cannot be multiline and are silently ignored if so

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Thanks for your report.

this is the faulty regex in runner/adt-run

1233: initre = regexp.compile('([A-Z][-0-9a-zA-Z]*)\s*\:\s*(.*)$')

why use a regex at all, this is what I use in my own (awful) adtrunner
depends = depends.replace("(", " ").replace("[", " ")
packages = [x.split()[0] for x in depends.split(",")]

depends is a string from debian.deb822

Here is a proposition of patch.
Note that multiline parsing in control files is currently completely broken, and fixing it changes the way numbering is done in the list 'stanzas' which might have side-effects in other parts of adt-run. But overall I think it is safe.

same fix with a packaging fix. Also adding a dependency on python-debian breaks the principle of using on minimal system, but it is already installed in the test environment as a dependency of update-notifier-common, so I think it is acceptable.

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Previous patch was broken (wrong variable name and broken indentation)
This one was tested against tabix, pygobject and glib

This bug was fixed in the package autopkgtest - 2.2.3ubuntu2

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autopkgtest (2.2.3ubuntu2) raring; urgency=low

  * Use debian.deb822 to parse control files. (LP: #1073856)
 -- Jean-Baptiste Lallement <email address hidden> Wed, 12 Dec 2012 22:48:51 +0100