Package: autopkgtest Version: 5.4 Severity: important As seen in at least
https://ci.debian.net/data/autopkgtest/testing/amd64/n/nftables/556352/log.gz autopkgtest has regressed for packages that are not Architecture: all or Architecture: any and have '@' in their test dependencies. This seems to be due to https://salsa.debian.org/ci-team/autopkgtest/commit/7cc976b02a881e5f2a43945fde87d8b8679ff442 which results in an erroneous 'apt-get install package [linux-any]' call. The code in _debian_packages_from_source() adds an architecture qualifier for non-{any,all} packages, so it's not suitable for feeding to 'apt-get install' as-is. Fixes / workarounds we've discussed with Paul include - parse the architecture list, pass the package to 'apt-get install' (without the arch qualifier) if and only we're on a matching architecture. (The matching check can be done with dpkg-architecture(1) but still leaves parsing the specification.) - don't try to 'apt-get install' non-{any,all} packages; this can result in a Provided package satisfying the dependency so the semantics of '@' are not guaranteed - as above, but mitigate the risk of a Provided package satisfying the dependency by limiting it only to versioned Provides. This could be done by reverting https://salsa.debian.org/ci-team/autopkgtest/commit/9199bbd3dc4ce845f6739dfebee264111c09fdad -- Niko Tyni nt...@debian.org
