On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 11:01:28AM +0100, Paul Gevers wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 22-03-18 10:43, Iain Lane wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 05:18:53PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> >> When autopkgtest 5.2 was recently rolled out to the Ubuntu infrastructure,
> >> various package-manager-related test suites began to fail as a result of
> >> the
> >> use of APT::Default-Release introduced in 5.1:
> >> […]
> >
> > I see autopkgtest already does:
> >
> > for default in default_releases:
> > script += 'printf "\nPackage: *\\nPin: release
> > a=%(default)s\\nPin-Priority: 990\\n" >>
> > /etc/apt/preferences.d/autopkgtest-%(release)s; ' % \
> > {'release': release, 'default': default}
> >
> > if there are default releases passed to this function, which there are
> > only for -updates. But AIUI (jak?) this is effectively the same as
> > APT::Default-Release anyway, so I'm proposing that we always do this for
> > the default release instead of the apt.conf.d snippet.
>
> autopkgtest works great with the new functionality, and it is really
> needed for Debian (the Ubuntu way of archives isn't robust, a= and s=
> are not the same except in Ubuntu). I tried, but decided against it, to
> have logic to convert e.g. sid to unstable (or the other way around), as
> it isn't robust for Debian downstreams.
>
> In my opinion, python(3|)-apt in Ubuntu is broken. It needs to accept
> valid APT::Default-Release options in it's own distribution.
> (Interestingly, python(3|)-apt doesn't depend on python-debian, but it
> does declare the Test-Depends in its autopkgtest).
It's not broken. There are several tests in various packages that use
python-apt on a chroot-like thing. but apt reads the host configuration
first, reading apt::default-release foo; but then cannot find foo in the
chroot-like environment and errors out.
This was fixed for about a month in 2014, but caused other regressions
because people complained they could not do stuff like setting custom
architectures for these chroot-like things.
This is not an Ubuntu-specific problem at all. The python-apt test suite
might work fine, but I'm not sure how many packages use it in autopkgtests
without sanitizing the environment.
The same also applies to apt -o Dir and friends.
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