Package: autopkgtest Version: 5.26 Severity: minor The program autopkgtest-build-qemu needs a few packages to be installed in order to work properly. However, such packages are not listed as dependencies of autopkgtest given that they are qemu-specific, and qemu is only one of the backends supported by autopkgtest. Some (but not all) of the needed packages are listed as Suggests. For vmdb2, autopkgtest-build-qemu detects its absence and warns about the fact:
vmdb2 not found. This script requires vmdb2 to be installed Another required package is zerofree, which is not currently listed in Suggests though it should be. See https://bugs.debian.org/1021341. Similarly to what it does for vmdb2, the script should warn if zerofree is missing too. Depending on the arguments passed to autopkgtest-build-qemu, the combination of required packages may change. For example, when building an arm64 image on a amd64 host with --architecture=arm64, the following packages are needed too: - qemu-user-static - binfmt-support - qemu-efi-aarch64 - qemu-system-arm For other architectures the list of requirements is likely a bit different. It would be great if autopkgtest-build-qemu could detect this and print a message about the missing packages instead of crashing.
